Ideally, you should position your bird feeder around 10 feet away from trees or shrubs to prevent squirrels from jumping onto ...

More days than not, the answer is this: Darling, graceful, sweet, and shockingly brave, just inches from where we’re sitting, swoops in the (perfectly named) black-capped chickadee. Naturally, ...

WASHINGTON - Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language -- chickadee ... was not part of Templeton's research team, black-capped chickadees have been known to produce ...

When a Black-capped Chickadee disappears into a small hole with a beak full ... with the bird carrying wood chips away from the nest site—a clever strategy to avoid drawing predators' attention to the ...

“The black-capped chickadee is a tiny bird with one of the ... Also, very high-pitched “dees” is a signal to others that a predator such as a hawk or owl is close by.

FLUFFED BY WIND, a chickadee perches in northern Dickinson ... to herald my arrival at the garden tractor shed each day are black-capped chickadees. They wait, not patiently, as the rolling ...

If you’ve ever wondered at a ruby-red cardinal or black-capped chickadee flitting about your frozen yard ... defend themselves against predators, and provide warmth in a roost. Plus, while less hearty ...

The petite Black-capped chickadee emits a high noise that tells predators to scram. Hungry Pileated Woodpecker chicks will often make a buzzy sound when they are waiting for food. Numerous ...

The social birds often mob a predator to drive it away. "A great horned owl going after a chickadee would be like a Hummer trying to outmaneuver and catch a Porsche," Templeton said. The tiny ...

They’re so good at spotting and scolding predators that other birds keep ... that the true “sister” species of the Black-capped Chickadee is actually western North America’s Mountain ...