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 ...
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 ...
It looks like this might be an irruption year for northern-nesting red-breasted nuthatches. These small 4.5-inch nuthatches may show up statewide this winter at area bird feeders to eat seeds, suet ...
The red-breasted nuthatch eavesdrops on chickadee conversations to get advanced notice of predators like pygmy owls. Cephas via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Black-capped chickadees have a ...
Like human code-breakers intercepting secret messages, red-breasted nuthatches have evolved ways to extract hidden information about threats from predators from the seemingly indistinguishable alarm ...
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Nuthatch Diet: What Do Nuthatches Eat? The most common backyard nuthatches are white-breasted nuthatches and red-breasted nuthatches. Other North American nuthatches can be found in specialized ...
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 ...
Hidden behind the needled boughs of a spruce tree that rises from my yard, a group of nuthatches was having an animated conversation. It seemed early in the day to engage in such lively chatter, but ...
"Head up or head down … / With a cutaway coat / And a broad white vest / And a high standing collar / He is always well dressed." —Garrett Newkirk in "Bird-Lore" Throughout the year, along with wrens ...
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