FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Black-capped Ch. in Memphis?

[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dee, and others,

Just because something has never been seen in an area (or you've been
told it's never been seen there) is NOT reason to doubt your
observation, or to avoid reporting it.  I know there are some folks
out there who can be quite critical, or who unintentionally come off
as quite critical, of rare observations.  But if we're all too
intimidated to report possible rarities, we will all miss out on so
much information.  Yes, it is quite a challenge to discern the 2
chickadee species found in Tennessee, but it's not impossible.  And
species ranges change.   Now you strike me as a person who has paid
close attention to birds for a long time.  So be brave!  We're all
wrong once in a while...

Charlie
--- Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Right after the first cold snap, I had one chickadee coming to my
> feeder here 
> in the Charlotte Park are of West Nashville which WAS larger than
> the others 
> and had more white coloration in his wings as well as all the other
> field 
> marks of a black capped.  It never "said" anything, and it seemed
> to prefer to 
> stand off alone.  It stayed around for several days then
> disappeared.  It or 
> another one comes by off and on and was here on Sunday.  I just
> neglected to 
> report it because I have been told that black capped chickadees
> have never been in 
> Nashville--that they are no closer by than the Smokies.  I TRULY
> BELIEVE it 
> was a black capped, but having had it so firmly hammered into my
> head that it is 
> impossible for them to be here, I didn't even add it to my yard
> list. It 
> really looked BIG compared to my flock of little Carolinas, but
> they outnumbered 
> it and kept it hopping off the feeder when they arrived.
> 
> Dee Thompson
> Nashville, Davidson County, TN
> 


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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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