{"id":59688,"date":"2019-08-23T05:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=59688"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:06:22","slug":"calling-black-capped-chickadee-perched-in-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/08\/23\/calling-black-capped-chickadee-perched-in-the-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Black-capped Chickadee Perched In The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even though Black-capped Chickadees are common for me to see and hear when I am at home I don’t photograph birds in my yard very often so when I see them in the field out in the open I feel I have to take photos of them even when they don’t look their best.<\/p>\n

Two days ago this Black-capped Chickadee and several other others were moving through a willow thicket in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains<\/span><\/a> where I had been focusing on photographing warblers, tanagers, and vireos.<\/p>\n

I could hear several of the chickadees calling and watched their movements in the willows so when I saw this chickadee pop up on a branch in the open I was ready and took a nice series of images of it.<\/p>\n

It looks like the chickadee may have bathed before into came into view because some of its feathers appear to be damp or wet and its plumage is a touch messy.<\/p>\n

The chickadee stayed on the branch long enough to look around, shake its feathers a bit and call before it took off of flew to another willow that had far more leaves than this branch.<\/p>\n

None of the other chickadees that were in the area came out into the open like this one did so I am glad I took photos of this one.<\/p>\n

For the purpose of full disclosure I removed the tips of two leaves from the right hand side of this frame in post processing. Normally I wouldn’t have removed the leaves but decided to because they were bright and somewhat distracting to my eyes.<\/p>\n

I have been enjoying the cooler morning temperatures up in the mountains and have noticed just a hint of the falls colors that are yet to come.<\/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":"

Two days ago this Black-capped Chickadee and several other others were moving through a willow thicket in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains where I had been focusing on photographing warblers, tanagers, and vireos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,6720,4594,26,773],"tags":[4004,6722,4072,3940,6273,6274,4069,4104,6721,2315,1824,6107],"class_list":["post-59688","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","tag-adult","tag-black-capped-chickadee","tag-calling","tag-canyon","tag-chickadee","tag-chickadees","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-poecile-atricapillus","tag-summer-3","tag-wet","tag-willow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t