Include brown Creeper, Black-capped & Mountain Chickadee, and Red-breasted
nuthatch in your high elevation winter gang I suppose. I found several
Winter Wrens at about 3,500' in Idaho this winter but I would guess you
were thinking a bit higher than that.

Charles E. Swift
charless at umich.edu
Moscow, Idaho

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, CHRIS CHAPPELL wrote:

> A few years ago, I found white-winged crossbills while skiing
> at the White Pass chairlifts. There are birds in the
> mountains in winter, and its worth keeping eyes and ears
> open during those breaks in the action.
>
> Nice to see your list of other species too, similar to what I
> often find when up high in the winter. I often find
> Golden-crowned Kinglets up high in the winter, quite amazing
> it seems given their size and primarily invertebrate-based
> diet. I think there is one group of permanent resident
> species that truly are that and another that withdraw from
> higher elevations in winter (e.g. Winter Wren).
>
> Chris Chappell
> Olympia
> chris.chappell at wadnr.gov
>
>