nesting Mtn Chickadee records, Douglas County

[Barbara Spagnuolo]

With all this recent talk of Mountain Chickadee sightings at lower elevations, I was curious about MOCH nesting at these lower elevations during the summer? For the last two years, a Mountain Chickadee has nested in the same bluebird nest box at the historic Cedar Hill Cemetery in Castle Rock, Douglas County. The elevation of the nest box is 6,223ft and the small, quiet but historically significant cemetery is full of very old and tall spruce and juniper trees, which has likely attracted the chickadees to the area. These nesting records are provided to NestWatch each year but nowhere else. Just curious if it was unusual or not.

-Barbara Spagnuolo, Castle Rock, CO

 

 

 

[David Suddjian]

Mountain Chickadee nests broadly in the pine forest of the Palmer Divide region, reaching out fairly far away from the mountains where the pines march far out, such as in Douglas and Elbert Counties. In the region near the Front Range they also nest in other areas at elevation's below our montane regions where plantings of trees, such as you describe, have developed to provide suitable habitat. 

David Suddjian

Ken Caryl Valley

Littleton, CO

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM Barbara Spagnuolo <BSpag...@crgov.com> wrote:

With all this recent talk of Mountain Chickadee sightings at lower elevations, I was curious about MOCH nesting at these lower elevations during the summer? For the last two years, a Mountain Chickadee has nested in the same bluebird nest box at the historic Cedar Hill Cemetery in Castle Rock, Douglas County. The elevation of the nest box is 6,223ft and the small, quiet but historically significant cemetery is full of very old and tall spruce and juniper trees, which has likely attracted the chickadees to the area. These nesting records are provided to NestWatch each year but nowhere else. Just curious if it was unusual or not.

-Barbara Spagnuolo, Castle Rock, CO

 

 

 

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