[Tweeters] Black-capped Chickadees sounding like Mountain Chickadees

[Jim Betz via Tweeters]

Eric/all,

   My take goes like this ... I use Merlin Soundid as a tool - to 
indicate what I should be LOOKING

for - but not as an ID.  I often find that Merlin "ids" calls that I not 
only didn't see the species

but I didn't even hear the call(s).  Often.  Not just in the PNW but 
essentially everywhere.

   I still consider Merlin Soundid to be a very useful and important 
tool ... I just don't use it as

an "ID".


   And as long as we are talking Merlin - I use Merlin PhotoID literally 
"every time I go out and

take a picture" and find it to be Highly Reliable and usually accurate 
without question.  I take a

picture, I transfer the images to my computer, I use my smart phone to 
ask Merlin "what bird

is this?" and get an answer that I can almost always 'just use'. In 
fact, PhotoID is so good that

it rarely even has more than one candidate bird.

           - Jim in Skagit