Mountain Chickadee
Poecile gambeli

f5 @ 1/400s, ISO:640, Nikon D300S w 300mm

\"Mountain Chickadee,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The mountain chickadee is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Adults of both sexes have a black cap joining a black postocular stripe behind distinctive white eyebrows. Their backs and flanks are gray and they have paler gray underparts; they have a short black bill, and a black bib. The typical adult wingspan is 7.5 in (19 cm), and the overall length is 5–6 in (13–15 cm). Common inhabitants of the mountainous regions of the western United States, their range extends from the southern Yukon to California and Rocky Mountain States in the United States. A few mountain chickadees may migrate locally up the mountains in the summer and down into the mountain foothills in the winter; but this phenomenon is not well documented.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

06/26/2012