Well, just below 40N.

Adding to the thread regarding the black-capped vs. Carolina chickadee
"boundary" and its progression northward:

I am looking for the date, which I believe to be in January of 2003 but
can't find it in my current records. (I have changed computers multiple
times, and database programs once.) I had a wonderful side-by-side
comparative view of what I called (and continue to call) a black-capped
chickadee feeding next to a classic Carolina chickadee, at my largest
feeder, here on the farm in Hopewell Township, Muskingum County.

I do not take this sighting lightly, even though I seem to have lost track
of the actual record. The bird in question was significantly larger than
the Carolina right next to it when I first saw it, with a fuzzy, indistinct
lower border to the black "bib," a slightly grayer shade of white to the
breast, and whiter fringes to the feathers in the wings. My first
impression was that it looked like "a chickadee on steroids." I realized
the significance of this large chickadee at once, and I was fascinated.

I watched this individual for around twenty minutes, as it came and went
from the feeder with the standard assortment of other chickadees and other
species. I had no trouble at all telling this singular bird from all the
other *Parus* present. I watched, with binoculars and without, from my back
door twenty feet away.

I have never seen another here, and I do not expect to again.

For what it is worth...

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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