Identification - It is smaller than a sparrow. The Black-capped Chickadee is gray above, creamy-white below, with buffy sides. It has a distinctive black cap and throat.
Morsels - When birds, like crows or chickadees, find a perched owl as they move through the forest, they fly around it, sometimes diving close to the predator, calling and creating a lot of raucous activity. This behavior, called mobbing, is thought to be an attempt to get the predator to move away from the area. Some birds, such as robins, usually mob only during the breeding season when they defend a nesting territory. Others, that use the same area throughout the year such as the Black-capped Chickadee, tend to mob predators throughout the year as well.
