On December 9, Dennis Donath recorded that the age of the Chickadee he was handling will be 9 years old after Jan 1, 2017. The bird was first captured and banded at Carpenter Nature Center on 11/07/09. That is old for a chickadee, very few exceed 5 years in age. For those doing the math in human figuring, it is not that old, the banding laboratory lists the birds hatching year as year one and after each New Years Day it is a year older. That chickadee entered our traps or flew into a mist net numerous times over the years. I wonder if it learned that if it walked into a Potter’s trap and hopped on the treadle it could sit and eat sun flower seeds till someone came and extracted it.
Tom Bell Grey Cloud Island 5868 Pioneer Rd. S. St. Paul Park, MN 55071 651 459-4150 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
