Black-capped Chickadee Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: How could you not love the little Chickadee? So active, so vocal, so full-of-life...they add so much to the birding landscape, particularly during the long, cold, dreary winters you can have in South Dakota. This photo is my favorite Chickadee photo. It was taken on a beautiful autumn day at the Big Sioux Recreation Area, the state park across the street from our home in Brandon, South Dakota. The dry leaves on the ground, the warm sunlight...really captures the day, and I also love the inquisitive pose of the Chickadee and the log perch, with the little curled knots of wood.

Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapilla


Black-capped Chickadee 1	Black-capped Chickadee 2	Black-capped Chickadee 3	Black-capped Chickadee 4
October 10th, 2004	October 10th, 2004	November 7th, 2007	November 7th, 2007
Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Outdoor Campus, Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota
Upside-down chickadee feeding on flower seeds	Bird clinging to a stem of a dried autumn flower	Black-capped Chickadee perched on a fallen log	Black-capped Chickadee giving an inquisitive pose amidst autumn foliage

Black-capped Chickadee 5	Black-capped Chickadee 6	Black-capped Chickadee 7	Black-capped Chickadee 8
November 7th, 2007	November 7th, 2007	August 10th, 2008	September 13th, 2009
Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Black-capped Chickadee perched on fallen log in the autumn leaves	Black-capped Chickadee perched on fallen log in the autumn leaves	Chickadee perched in juniper tree	Bird moving through the forest canopy

Black-capped Chickadee 9	Black-capped Chickadee 10	Black-capped Chickadee 11	Black-capped Chickadee 12
March 21st, 2010	September 5th, 2011	January 8th, 2011	September 11th, 2010
Perry Nature Area near Sioux Falls, S. Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
BOAS - clean view of a Black-capped Chickadee on a stick	Bird perched on an eastern red cedar branch	Black-capped Chickadee perched on a spruce tree branch	Singing bird perched on top of dead branch

Black-capped Chickadee 13	Black-capped Chickadee 14	Black-capped Chickadee 15	Black-capped Chickadee 16
September 11th, 2010	September 14th, 2014	October 5th, 2014	January 11th, 2014
Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota
Profile of chickadee on a curved branch	Chickadee eating a berry from an eastern red cedar ("juniper")	Bird perched on a diagonal branch of an eastern red cedar	BOAS! Classic bird-on-a-stick pose

Black-capped Chickadee 17	Black-capped Chickadee 18	Black-capped Chickadee 19	Black-capped Chickadee 20
May 3rd, 2020	September 23rd, 2018	September 13th, 2020	September 13th, 2020
Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Singing bird on the top of a lichen-covered branch	Upside-down Chickadee clinging to a branch	Black-capped Chickadee perched in red autumn foliage	Profile of a chickadee on a branch in fall foliage

Black-capped Chickadee 21	Black-capped Chickadee 22
September 13th, 2020	September 13th, 2020
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Inquisitive bird perched on a tree branch amidst autumn foliage	Chickadee posing among red autumn foliage