Chestnut-Backed Chickadees. In the Northwest and along the Pacific Coast, you’ll find chestnut-backed chickadees at home in cities and towns as well as dense evergreen forests.

Chestnut-backed chickadees, yellow warblers and other feathered birds have landed this winter on otherwise-unassuming green utility boxes along South Van Ness Avenue and Bryant Street in the Mission. ...

If you're having trouble with wasps in your yard, there's an easy solution that doesn't involve chemicals. Simply entice a common bird to come chow down.

As early as 1914, Grinnell, the legendary director of UC’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, speculated that chestnut-backed chickadees might do well in the East Bay if they ever managed to cross the ...

Chickadees show up at feeders through the coldest months and brighten our gloomiest days. ... although the mountain and chestnut-backed chickadees of the Northwest move to find snow-free foraging.

The talkativeness of chickadees is legendary. It is, after all, the origin of their name, with “chickadee” a pleasant rendering of their most distinctive call.

The black-capped chickadees are a little plainer than Marin’s chestnut-backed chickadees — my Californian eyes tend to spot these eastern chickadees and unconsciously start wondering why they ...

The East has chickadees, but not our Pacific coast specialty, the chestnut-backed chickadee. (Photo by Mick Thompson) I’ll start with some concessions to the locals: cardinals are nice, those ...