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Clark’s Nutcracker With a shape and sound similar to the Steller’s jay, this light gray bird has black wings with white patches. Seen at treeline along high ridgetops, very much Tahoe Rim Trail country, Clark’s nutcracker makes a loud and slow flap, flap, flap with its wings as it flies from tree to tree. It prefers whitebark pines; a single bird can bury thousands of pine seeds in a summer season.

Mountain Bluebird A rare and beautiful treat, the mountain bluebird is sky blue and startling in its soft beauty. About the size of a robin, it is a lighter blue than the much more common Steller’s jay. Look for it in grassy meadows or at the edge of the forest hunting insects. I have seen it in Ward Canyon and near Truckee.

Mountain Chickadee Perhaps the most common bird in the Tahoe woods, the small chickadee (about 5 inches long) is light gray with a black cap and white line over each eye. Usually quiet, this active bird may be best known for its call, which many people say sounds like cheese, burrr, gerrrr; others claim its call sounds more like tsick-a-dee-dee-dee. You be the judge. Maybe it just sounds like the voice of a chickadee.