{"id":108510,"date":"2022-12-06T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=108510"},"modified":"2022-12-06T04:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:25:34","slug":"singing-black-capped-chickadee-in-the-wasatch-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/12\/06\/singing-black-capped-chickadee-in-the-wasatch-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing Black-capped Chickadee In The Wasatch Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this singing Black-capped Chickadee adult this past August high up in the Wasatch Mountains on a very hot summer morning. It had to be hot because what summer day in 2022 wasn&#8217;t hot? They were all hot, sometimes miserably so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-108507 size-full\" title=\"Singing Black-capped Chickadee adult\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307.jpg\" alt=\"Singing Black-capped Chickadee adult, Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Singing Black-capped Chickadee adult \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While I was driving slowly on a dusty, pothole-filled road high in the mountains, I spotted some movement in a serviceberry shrub and stopped to see what caught my eye. Before long, I could see a Black-capped Chickadee moving around in the shrub. I waited and watched as the small bird peeked in and out of the leaves of the serviceberry.<\/p>\n<p>When the Black-capped Chickadee took to the air, I was surprised when it landed close to where I sat in my Jeep and started to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xeno-canto.org\/717518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sing<\/span><\/a>. While I wish that some of the out of focus branches weren&#8217;t in my photos of this bird, I was happy to have the chickadee out in the open. I loved listening to the chickadee while I took photos of the bird.<\/p>\n<p>By now, the area where I photographed this chickadee is covered in snow, and I won&#8217;t be able to get back up there until at least April or maybe May. I hope this little chickadee makes it through the cold, harsh winter days so I can hear it sing again.<\/p>\n<p>Life<em> is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/black-capped-chickadee-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Black-capped Chickadee photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this singing Black-capped Chickadee adult this past August high up in the Wasatch Mountains on a very hot summer morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6720,4594,26,773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-black-capped-chickadees","category-morgan-county","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/black-capped-chickadee-singing-mia-mcpherson-6307.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-sea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53569,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/08\/13\/black-capped-chickadees-photographed-in-a-mountain-canyon\/","url_meta":{"origin":108510,"position":0},"title":"Black-capped Chickadees Photographed In A Mountain Canyon","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent some time yesterday morning observing, photographing and enjoying the songs and calls of Black-capped Chickadees in a high mountain canyon. 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