{"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":"

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’t hot? They were all hot, sometimes miserably so.<\/p>\n

\"SingingSinging 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

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

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\u00a0sing<\/span><\/a>. While I wish that some of the out of focus branches weren’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

By now, the area where I photographed this chickadee is covered in snow, and I won’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

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click 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":"

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