Campbell Valley Chickadees Challenge

[kenpossum]

Paid a short visit to Campbell Valley Park and see why it is a favourite spot for photographing both the Black-capped and Chestnut-capped Chickadees. The Chestnuts were a 1/10 ratio that day and seemed more shy than the Black-capped.

Going back there to get one more 'Bucket-list Photo' - both together in the same image. With time and a bag of sunflower seeds, I think it can be done. Maybe it already has. If you have this image, please post it here so I can drool some more.

[Chris]

Ken, nice pictures of the Chestnut-backed Chickadees. They aren't as entertaining as the Black-capped but still a great bird.

Before I forget the best I could manage is this photo. If the Chestnut-backed wasn't pounding away on a seed it would have been better.

[kenpossum]

Nice! Very nice Chris. Any more out there? Let's keep this challenge to be natural surroundings like the image above

[dpeppar]

This was taken at the Heron Res late in the day....



DaveP

[davidandkaren]

Good luck with that project. Just doing a Google search I couldn't find one with both species.

Funny thing is I often have these guys at my feeder all the time but they take turns - I could probably get both in the same bush but it would have to be a wide shot.

BTW Here's Karen's entry in the Chickadee contest

[kenpossum]

That is one beautiful image Karen. How not to love these little guys! Hmmm this challenge to get both species in the same shot is really turning out to be a challenge, especially if we rule out feeder captures..

[kenpossum]

My recent attempt at this challenge. Only took about 250 images (of single birds) and 1 hr of coaxing, begging, pleading, bribing to get the two species to share the same image!

[Dave]

Congrats at achieving your goal, Ken!