Boreal Chickadee - Bebo Grove, AB
It was a treat to see this far north chickadee up close just inside Calgary city limits in a park that runs either side of Fish Trap Creek. There was a mixed flock made up of Black-capped and Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted and White-breasted Nuthatches and a couple of Hairy and Downy woodpeckers in there for good measure. As their name suggests, these birds live in the northern forests of Canada and Alaska year round and coming only slightly south in their range when the weather is particularly nasty.