Entry 124. Sitta carolinensis aculeata. Slender-billed Nuthatch. [White-breasted Nuthatch]
Not common on the mountain, and only moderately so at Sisson. A few were seen at Squaw Creek Camp from time to time in August, once or twice in the mixed flocks of chickadees and warblers.
Pygmy Nuthatch (top center), Red-breasted Nuthatch (bottom left),
and Slender-billed Nuthatch (upper right)
Painting by R. Bruce Horsfall, 1921
Entry 125. Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch.
Common from the lower edge of the Shasta fir belt up to timberline; and from the time of our arrival, the middle of July, until our departure, the latter part of September. In September it was often seen in mixed flocks with mountain chickadees and Audubon warblers.
Entry 125. Sitta pygmaea. Pigmy Nuthatch. [Pygmy Nuthatch]
In the Ponderosa pines near Sisson, W.H. Osgood saw pigmy nuthatches July 13, and I saw a small flock September 30. At the southwest end of Shasta Valley, not far from Edgewood, Osgood saw several in the pines September 20.
Above excerpts from
Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, California
by C. Hart Merriam, 1899.
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