Volume 11 , Issue 16

Chickadee & Pine Siskin In SW Colorado Mtns

Here is a link to another video of the Pine Siskin that NW Okie put up on her YouTube.com site at this URL: Pine Siskin video. Notice the video of a couple of chickadee's at the beginning of the video.

This week's video shows a couple of Chickadee's stealing a few bites of wildbird seeds we laid out on a patio table and in our bird feeders. The Chickadee's did not feed alongside the Siskin's and Junco's, though. The Chickadee's would wait until the other birds were off doing their feeding elsewhere, then grab a few seeds and fly off themselves.


The Chickadee males, females and juveniles are similar in appearance. They have a light gray tail and back, a white belly and cheeks, and a black "cap", chin and throat. Their bill, legs and feet are dark or black, and they have white and black streaks on their buff-colored wings. They reach a length of 4.75 to 5.75 inches and have a wingspread of 7.5 to 8.5 inches.

They weigh about 0.33 of an ounce. Their call is a chick-a-de-dee-dee or dee-dee-dee. They also produce a whistled fee-bee-ee, fee-bee, or coming with a high first note followed by descending notes. They will respond to imitated calls. Black-capped chickadees are also known as back-capped tit, black-capped titmouse, common chickadee, long-tailed chickadee, Oregon chickadee and Yukon chickadee.
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