Carolina Chickadee Information:
Range: Permanent residents everywhere in the Southeast, except Florida and above 4,000 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Habitat: Mixed hardwood woodlots. They nest in natural wood cavities, old unoccupied woodpecker nest cavities, fence posts, and sometimes will nest in metal pipes in your yard if they are off the ground (such as a hollow clothes line pole). House measurements...4" x 4" x 8" with a 1 1/8" hole, cut 2" below the top, mounted 5 to 15 feet off the ground on poles or in
trees. If you put hair in your yard the chickadees will use it in their nests.
Food and
plants that will attract Carolina Chickadees to your yard: Moths and Caterpillars,
seeds and small berries, will come to feeders for sunflower
seeds, thistle
seeds, suet.
plants: Holly, dogwood, blueberry, thistle.