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Chickadees, Nuthatches and Allies 17 images Created 8 May 2015

Chickadees, Nuthatches and their Allies - This group of passerine families (Aegithalidae, Certhiidae, Paridae, Remizidae, Sittidae) collectively make up the large group of small songbirds often seen at bird feeders and flying together in mixed flocks around the world.
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  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch
  • This chestnut-backed chickadee shares much of the same range as its cousin, the black-capped chickadee. Interestingly, they may share the same resources, but they don't share the same feeding habits. Chestnut-backed chickadees like to feed near the top of conifers and other deciduous trees, while black-capped chickadees prefer the lower half of these same trees. Therefore, they don't compete for resources.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • One of the most friendly and curious of American songbirds, this black-capped chickadee pauses on a stick next to me, watching me as closely as I was watching it in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
    Black-Capped Chickadee
  • One of the New World's smallest songbirds, the bushtit is a voracious feeder  of insects in the western United States, Mexico and the extreme southwestern corner of British Columbia in Canada.
    Bushtit
  • A chestnut-backed chickadee perches in a maple tree south of Seattle.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • This small variety of chickadee is a very common springtime visitor to the maple tree in my backyard. Extremely bold for even other usually curious chickadees, this one will often land within arm's reach from me if I'm just minding my own business, reading a book on my own back porch.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch
  • A chestnut-backed chickadee perches in a maple tree south of Seattle.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch
  • A black-capped chickadee perches in a maple tree south of Seattle.
    Black-Capped Chickadee
  • A black-capped chickadee perches in a maple tree south of Seattle.
    Black-Capped Chickadee
  • A chestnut-backed chickadee perches in a maple tree south of Seattle.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch
  • This subspecies of the chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens rufescens) has very clearly marked reddish-brown coloring on its flanks, just under the wings. This Pacific Northwest subspecies is found from Northern California all the way to Alaska.
    Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
  • A bushtit pauses for a second on a bigleaf maple tree in Western Washington in the late afternoon as it hunts for spiders, aphids and other small insects.
    Bushtit
  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch
  • A red-breasted nutchatch perches in a maple tree on a warm spring Pacific Northwest day in Kent, Washington.
    Red-breasted Nutchatch