Along almost the whole coast of California and far into Alaska these birds are found in their favorite haunts — the spruce forest wherever it has been spared by lumberman or farmer; and in the dry air of the Pacific coast their ringing tones seem to me to be even clearer and sweeter than in the east. —Dwight.
NEST: built of leaves, moss and grass, bulky and compact, placed in bushes or small trees within ten feet of ground.
EGGS, 4 or 5, light greenish blue spotted with rusty brown.
Pacific coast of North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition and possibly upper Austral zones from Juneau, Alaska, to San Diego county, California.
A tree, 100 to 150 feet high, with massive 5–10-foot trunk, distributed from Columbia River Valley, Oregon, south on western slopes of Cascades and thru California along western Sierra Nevadas, becoming shrubby in high southern part of its California range. Largest in humid valleys of northern California.