Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...
The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the unusual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to deter ...
No one likes to get duped by fake news, including the red-breasted nuthatch. A year-round resident of the Inland Northwest, this quirky little bird does its best to verify information before ...
The white-breasted nuthatch is a familiar bird to many feeders in our region. This small songbird is snowy white below and wears a coat of slate-blue above. A bold black stripe caps its head and neck.
What is with that crazy bird? Why does he just climb down the tree then fly to the top and then climb down again? It is a nuthatch. It’s habit of hopping headfirst down tree trunks helps it see ...
The red-breasted nuthatch isn’t a bird that I expect to see every day, even when I look for them, so it was a pleasant surprise to find one drop in on my feeder array on the first day of last week’s ...
Three juncos and a Red-breasted Nuthatch were in our yard this week, first sign of northern birds moving south for the winter. This is as predicted in the annual winter finch forecast prepared by Ron ...
The white-breasted has several appealing attributes-to people, at least, and presumably also to other nuthatches. For starters, the nuthatch can hang upside down. For another, it is a resident bird, ...
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