On seaward shoulders of the Cascades, looking down on Puget Sound, there are reaches of virgin forests which have never been logged or touched by fire. For centuries seawinds have loaded them with moisture — the long days of Northern summers have filled their dim recesses with a tropic growth of fern, vine, maple and briar. There are mountain torrents and quiet pools where rainbow trout play undisturbed. There are vistas from some folds in the hills which end with distant seashine westward and of snows to the north which never melt. There in the dim forest paths between impenetrable jungles of moss covered fallen tree-paths as old as the great firs, the WESTERN WINTER WRENS live and sing. —Churchill.
Western North America. Breeds from Prince William Sound, Alaska and western Alberta south to central California and northern Colorado. Winters in southern British Columbia, south to southern California and southern New Mexico.