Tag: Black Capped Chickadee
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.
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Update to the Great Backyard Bird Count
I watched for an hour and a half and this was my official count:
5 House Finches (2 males, 3 females)
3 Dark-Eyed Juncos
2 Red-Breasted Nuthatches
2 Downy Woodpeckers (One male, one female)
5 Chestnut-backed Chickadees
A dozen or more Black-Capped Chickadees
1 Stellar’s Jay
5 American Robins (1 male, 4 females)
3 dozen or more Mallards
1 – 2 dozen American Crows
4 Song [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2009 under 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), American Crow, American Robin, Black Capped Chickadee, Blackbird, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Duck, Feeding, Finches, House Finch, Mallard, Robin, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, crow, songbird, sparrow, window, woodpecker.
Tags: american crows, American Robins, Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, crows, Dark-eye Junco, Dark-eyed Junco, Darkeyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Finches, Great Backyard Bird Count, House Finches, Jay, mallards, robins, song sparrows, sparrows, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, woodpecker
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Birdy Utopia!!!
OH! YAY! Since we put out the peanuts without shells and the new bird feeder, we have had so many new visitors. These wonderfully interesting feathered friends we have seen stop in…
Stellar’s Jay **
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Black-Capped Chickadee
Brewer’s Blackbird **
Crows (on a regular basis)
American Robin
House Finch
Dark-eyed Junco
Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
Spotted Towhee
Hummingbird (not certain which one — he was a [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2009 under American Robin, Bird Cam, Bird Evolution, Birds, Black Capped Chickadee, Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Carpodacus mexicanus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Cyanocitta stelleri, Dark-eyed Junco, Euphagus cyanocephalus, House Finch, Junco hyemalis, Pipilo maculatus, Poecile atricapilla, Poecile rufescens, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta Canadensis, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, Turdus migratorius, birdy, crow.
Tags: American Crow, American Robin, Black Capped Chickadee, Brewer's Bird, Brewer's Blackbird, Carpodacus mexicanus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, crow, crows, Cyanocitta stelleri, Dark-eye Junco, Dark-eyed Junco, Euphagus cyanocephalus, House Finch, Junco hyemalis, Pipilo maculatus, Poecile atricapilla, Poecile rufescens, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta Canadensis, Spotted Towhee, Stellar's Jay, Turdus migratorius
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Chickadees
These little cuties come to the back porch to eat the black oil sunflower seeds in the new feeder. YAY for new birds! =) (Don’t worry, we are still feed the crows!) There are two types here: the Black-Capped Chickadees and Chestnut-Backed Chickadees.
Aren’t they adorable?
“Mixed flocks stay together because the chickadees call out whenever they [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2009 under Birds, Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Passerine, Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, birdie, birdy, songbird, tit.
Tags: Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-Backed Chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, songbird, tit
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