Entry 127. Parus gambeli. Mountain Chickadee. [Poecile gambeli]
Common and widely distributed. In the firs at Wagon Camp they were among the commonest birds, and at higher altitudes were seen or heard nearly every day. Early on the morning of July 24, after camping for the night in the shelter of a narrow fringe of dwarf white-bark pines at timberline, on one of the desolate torrent-swept beds of Inconstance Creek, high up on the north side of Shasta, we were saluted by a small flock of these cheerful little birds. In September they helped form the mixed flocks, along with Audubon and other warblers, Canada nuthatches, and other small fry so often seen among the Shasta firs and alpine hemlocks. At Sisson Miss Merriam saw them about the middle of July; they were common there in September, and were noted in Shasta Valley by C.H. Osgood September 17 to 20.
Mountain Chickadees © 1998 Doug Von Gausig.
Mountain Chickadee by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Above excerpts from
Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, California
by C. Hart Merriam, 1899.
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