[obol] Chickadee & Gold-crowned Kinglet Behaviors

[Norgren Family]

      I've seen Chestnut-backed Chickadees
cache seeds at my house as aggressively as
the Steller's Jays. Numerous individuals will
grab seed as fast as they can, fly to a large
tree trunk, and return seconds later to repeat
the proceedure. There are a dozen and a half
seventy year old Douglas-firs here with very
rough bark.   Lars Norgren Manning Oregon
On Feb 3, 2008, at 3:09 PM, sandyleapt at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I have been watching the garden birds this morning and much to my 
> surprise one of the Chickadees started pulling sunflower seeds from 
> flower clusters on the Viburnum blooming in my garden.  I immediately 
> ran for the Birds of Oregon book to see if Chickadees cache food.  It 
> looks like the behavior has been noted in other states, it would seem 
> they do the same thing here in Oregon.
>
> Is it unusual for Golden-crowned Kinglets to hawk insects?  I went for 
> a walk today along the Columbia Slough Canoe Launch Trail.  In the 
> young fir trees west of the parking lot I was surrounded by a small 
> group of Golden-crowned Kinglets down fairly low in the trees.   Some 
> of the kinglets were hawking insects.  I snapped a few photos and 
> through just dumb luck got one of the birds and the bugs in the 
> picture.
>
> Birds seen on the trail west of the parking lot.  watched for about 
> and hour today:
>
> Golden-crowned Kinglet
> Brown Creeper
> Anna's Hummingbird (adult male singing, did not see)
> Downy Woodpecker
> Pileated Woodpecker (heard not seen)
> Common merganser
> Hooded merganser
> American Wigeon
> Gadwall
> Ring-necked Duck
> Mallard
> Bufflehead
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Western Scrub Jay
> American Crow
> Spotted Towhee
> Golden-crowned Sparrow
> Chestnut-backed Chickadee
> Starling (1)
> American Robin (1)
> Unidentified Gulls
> Unidentified Sparrows
> Canada Geese
>
>
>
>
> Sandy Leaptrott
> NE Portland
>
> PS:  I am blown away by the incredible beauty of Hooded Mergansers and 
> how hard it is to get a picture of a Buflehead, they sink or fly when 
> they sense a camera pointed at them.
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