Subject: Re: From S.W. Washington
Date: Apr 1 10:55:33 1998
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 7:34 PM -0800 3/31/98, Gerald Hamilton wrote:
> Saw one Chestnut-backed Chickadee(it too
>flew away just after I trained the binoculars on it......but I saw
>enough of the markings on it to be 98.5% sure......not 'sure enough'
>however for me to put in on a 'life list.') I didn't see any of its
>'lower elevation' cousin the Black-capped Chickadee though.

Hey Gerald,

what does this "lower elevation" comment mean? I live at about 100', and I
have both chestnut-backed and black-capped chickadees in my yard.

Rob Saecker
Olympia