Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Poecile rufescens
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 4/7/06, my back yard, Stanford campus
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 5/11/04, Frenchman's Park, Stanford campus
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 9/2/07, my yard, Stanford campus
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 6/7/05, my back yard, Stanford campus
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 9/3/08, Russian River, Healdsburg, Sonoma Co
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 8/31/06, my back yard, Stanford campus
These charmers are backyard residents and favorite visitors to our feeders. The Chestnut-backed is more colorful than the other North American chickadee species, but (in exchange?) less vocally variable; it doesn't have a song, just makes its "chickadee-dee-dee" and squeaky calls all year long.
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 9/3/08, Russian River, Healdsburg, Sonoma Co
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