Archive for 'Chickadee'
Bad Day
Bad Day Originally uploaded by Navicore The caption reads: The gloomy chickadee is indoors looking outdoors through a filthy window that holds his reflection. Couldn’t help taking pictures of this guy before delicately helping him find the door. Took only a moment to take his pictures but it took another half hour to help him [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2010 under A Bird A Day, Bird sightings, Birder indoors, Birding at home, Birding indoors, Birds, Birds and Windows, Chickadee, bird watching indoors, bird-lovers, bird-watching, birder, birders, birdie, birding, birding from the window, birdy, photography, pictures.
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Peanut Log Success
He was very excited and to add to his excitement–I put out donuts for him. Oh! This was a happy weekend for our little chicka-dee-dee-dees!
Posted: May 11th, 2009 under Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, Peanut Butter Log, chickadee treats, donuts.
Tags: Black Capped Chickadee, blackcapped chicakdee, Chickadee, chickadees, donuts, log, peanut butter
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Weekend Birdies…
Our birdy feeders have been seemingly sparse lately, or so we thought but then we realized we have attracted bully birds to our porch. The crows have always been a welcome bird. For the most part they do not harm or disturb the other little birds. We began feeding them and then branched out to [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2009 under Backyard Feeder, Bird Feeder, Bird Feeders, Black Capped Chickadee, Carduelis pinus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, English sparrow, Europe, European Starling, Feeding, Junco hyemalis, Passer domesticus, Picoides pubescens, Pine Siskin, Pine Siskin (Female), Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, Starling, Sturnus vulgaris, White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, backyard birding, feeders, house sparrow, pests.
Tags: backyard birds, Bird Feeder, bird pictures, Black Capped Chickadee, Carduelis pinus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Darkeyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, European Starling, European Starlings, feeders, female duck, house sparrow, House sparrows, Junco hyemalis, male downy woodpecker, Passer domesticus, photographs, Picoides pubescens, pictures of the black-capped chickadee, pictures of the chestnut-backed chickadee, pictures of the downy woodpecker, pictures of the european starling, pictures of the house sparrow, pictures of the pine siskin, Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, Sturnus vulgaris, Zonotrichia leucophrys
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Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
We love our little black-capped chickadees! They are cute and energetic and fun. They have little white cheeks and black caps and black chins with a white collar patch and a light tan, orangish underbelly and grayish-black wings. It is said they eat mostly seeds but we have seen differently! =) Oh do not get [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under Black Capped Chickadee, Chickadee, Collective Noun(s), Group Name, Peanut Butter Log, Poecile atricapillus, Suet Feeder, Washington, Washington State, seeds, suet.
Tags: a group of black-capped chickadees are called, Black Capped Chickadee, Black-Capped Chickadees, Black-capped chickadees in Washington State, collective noun for Black-Capped Chickadee, collective noun for chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, the black capped chickadee, What is a group of Black-Capped Chickadees called?, what is the collective noun for the Black-Capped Chickadee
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This weekend’s birds…
Many of our regulars, a couple not-so-regulars and one brand new bird for us… …. …. …. …. …. And the debut of the Bewick’s Wren… this is our first sighting of this bird! YAY! =)
Posted: April 5th, 2009 under Bewick's Wren, Carduelis pinus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Melospiza melodia, Poecile rufescens, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Redmond, Redmond Wetland Mitigation, Sitta Canadensis, Song Sparrow, Thryomanes bewickii, crow, crows, songbird.
Tags: American Crow, Bewick's Wren, Carduelis pinus, Checknut-backed Chickadee, Corvus brachyrhynchos, crow, Melospiza melodia, Pine Siskin, Poecile rufescens, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta Canadensis, Song Sparrow, Thryomanes bewickii
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Slowest wing beat, fastest wing beat
Birds fly. Their little wings do so much work, beating and beating, keeping their bodies afloat. We admire them in many ways. We try to imitate them. Oh what we would not do to fly!! Most small songbirds fly between 20 and 20 miles per hour.1 And most songbirds have a wingbeat frequency between 10 [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2009 under Chickadee, Heliactin cornuta, Horned sungem, Large vultures, fastest wing beat, flap wings, flapping frequency, hummingbirds, slowest wing beat, vultures, wing beats, wing speed, wingbeat frequency.
Tags: Chickadee, fastest bird in the world, fastest wing beat, fastest wingbeat frequency, Heliactin cornuta, Horned sungem, Hummingbird, Large vultures, slowest bird in the world, slowest wing beat, songbirds, South America, vulture, wing beat frequency
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