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From: Michael Hobbs
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 8:55 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Possible Mountain x Black-capped Chickadee hybrid

Tweets - On the gallery page for Mountain Chickadee on the Marymoor Park
website, I now have 6 photos, probably of the same bird, taken over the
course of the last 3 years at Marymoor.

http://www.marymoor.org/Galleries/MOCH.htm
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Hmmm, very interesting pictures, and looks EXACTLY like a bird I had off
and on in my yard and feeders over a 4-6 week period about three years ago.
Enough so, I think it is in fact the very same bird! At the time I
cautiously wondered about Mountain Chickadee, looking at and studying it
repeatedly, but it just didn't seem or 'feel' right and I ended up letting it go as
an aberrant Black-capped. The distance between here and Marymoor is maybe
6-8 miles as a chickadee flies and flew as direct as the proverbial crow.

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate S of 90)