Townsend Solitaire's flutelike, ethereal, warbling song and its preference for remote juniper-fringed hillsides lends a mystic tone to a morning saunter. The birds are fairly common here but not often seen, until one gets away from congestion and needless noise. They breed in open conifer forests up to 11,500 feet but migrate downslope to lower elevations in winter. Its winter diet is almost exclusively juniper berries. It's a thrush (like robins) but perches upright on treetops like a flycatcher and will hawk for insects in flight in the summer, when there are insects in flight.