Date: 2/26/26 2:07 pm From: Jane Hadley via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Black-capped Chickadees sounding like Mountain Chickadees
In May 2025, my husband, a friend and I were doing a migration count on the Willard Springs trail at the Conboy National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in Glenwood, Washington.
We heard what we thought was a Black-capped Chickadee, but then when I looked at the singing bird through my binocs, I saw that it could be a Mountain Chickadee. Meanwhile, Merlin was identifying it as a Black-capped.
I was determined to get a good look at it and finally did. It was a Mountain Chickadee, and I was looking squarely at it as it was singing and as Merlin was identifying it as Black-capped.
