At 04:01 AM 7/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Arrgh, Tweets, it's too early in the morning. After I sent my last
>message to the board about the musical chickadee song another question
>slowly emerged from the fog in my head: what are the observations as to
>the contexts of the differing chickadee calls/songs? Is there an
>understood reason?
>
I missed your original message, but the "dee dee dee dee dee" call (hard to
put the proper emphasis on the right notes with this mail program) seem to
be territorial and used during breeding season, from what I can observe.
The chick-a-dee-dee-dee call appears to be a warning call. Anyone know for
sure?

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com
http://www2.cruzio.com/~woodduck/


"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
It sings because it has a song"