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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 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 2 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 3 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 4 - 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 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 6 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 7 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 8 - Poecile atricapilla 

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 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 10 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 11 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 12 - Poecile atricapilla 

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- Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 14 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 15 - Poecile atricapilla

Black-capped Chickadee 16 - Poecile atricapilla

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 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 18 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 19 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 20 - Poecile atricapilla 

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 - Poecile atricapilla 

Black-capped Chickadee 22 - Poecile atricapilla 

 

 

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 

 

 

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