If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Chestnut-Backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)

This chestnut-backed chickadee was the highlight of our trip (at least for me, Gil not so much) to Elkhorn Slough in Monterey County back in 2004.
8/18/04 Riparian area, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Monterey County, CA 

8/18/04 Riparian area, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Monterey County, CA

1/14/06 Oso Flaco Lake, Oceano, San Luis Obispo County, CA (Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival event#35). 

1/16/05 Mudflat Cafe, Morro Bay State Park, San Luis Obispo County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Chestnut-Backed Chickadee

SPECIES: Poecile rufescens

LIFE LIST DATE: 8/18/2004

LOCATION: Riparian area, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Monterey County, CA

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 5"; Most brightly colored chickadee; Dark gray cap; black bib; white cheek; rich reddish-brown back; flanks reddish brown. Birds that live on the Central California coast have gray flanks. 

VOICE: Calls are a hoarse chick-zee-zee and a chek chek. Has no whistled song.
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