ML97138501
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Observation details
*Surprising! While near the constructed wetland on the return at 1221, I thought I heard a hoarse MOCH call downstream and I located a chickadee moving around in a Chokecherry row 80 m downstream. I then flew overhead, making a few slightly hoarse (but not distinctive) calls, and landed for less than 30 seconds in another Chokecherry row 100 m upstream of me. I got photos of it there, which confirmed MOCH. It then apparently flew farther upstream. At 1226 I again heard a single, burry MOCH call in the same general vicinity, but was not able to judge direction due to stream noise. At 1237, I again heard a distinctive, hoarse "chickadee" call and located 1 MOCH downstream near where I had first seen the first MOCH, ca 60 m downstream of me in an Alnus incana, pecking at something (catkins?). It then flew ca 10 m E to a Chokecherry and I saw a second MOCH near it. At 1240 I saw 1 fly N and followed its flight with my binoculars, over the grassland until out of sight at least 150 m N of the riparian zone. I was not able to relocate the second bird afterwards - did it fly N too? There were very definitely two MOCH, but given the direction of the first individual seen I thought it quite likely that I had seen 3 different individuals. When I saw the second one flying N, was it heading for the conifer forest of the Scratchgravel Hills? This is the first time I have spotting Mountain Chickadees here in the spring (2 sightings previously, last Aug and Sept).
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 1977 pixels x 1426 pixels
- Original file size
- 321.72 KB