I have been so blessed these past 2 years to have a number of Red-Breasted Nuthatches in my yard. These little, perhaps even tiny, birds are so much fun to watch. They visit my feeders daily, but the fun is to see them running up and down the redbud outside my computer window. Very distracting! They are often in shots of other birds, but being so small – and cardinals being twice their size and so bright, they usually remain unseen. But, yesterday, as I was taking a few shots of something else outside, I turned around and was literally face to face with a little nuthatch. Did I mention they are brave little souls? The White breasted Nuthatch will fly away if you are in their visibility range, or if one of the cats moseys by… the Carolina Wrens will go up higher or to a bush about 30 feet away and start ‘scolding’ at the top of its lungs. But the Nuthatch just sits quietly and watches. Perhaps it is curious, too. These shots were taken from a distance of 5 to 3 feet away. Punkie and Spook followed me out into the yard to see what was happening. I was thrilled to see Punk come out, but that is another story. He has been quite ill. Anyway, I digress, as usual. My guess is that this is a female as the breast is quite pale. I love that blue color. But, there she sat, and posed, don’t you think? 
With Spook under the feeders, but not really interested… and Punkie right behind me. He is showing his age.
And an old shot for size comparison… find this feeder and compare with the size of the cardinals.
6 comments:
Loving the bird pics.. I'm still hibernating.. the wind is cold to me...
We had just one this winter. They come down to southern Minnesota only occasionally in the winter. Cute little busy buggers...:)
These little birds are so cute – we get them in our feeders. We also get cardinals, blue jays, black hat chickadees, thrashers, robins, etc. Yesterday I saw a bird with red around its head and upper body and have no clue what it was. I tried to take its picture but it is not very clear. We have 7 bird feeders but it is a fight with the squirrels. I bought 3 that are squirrel proof but they found a way to come on top and open them, and since they are fat, they broke one yesterday. I’ll come and read more of your posts.
Lovely pictures, Jan. The nuthatch has always been a favorite of mine and it looks like that one is there to stay !
I sure do miss cardinals. They don't come to Oregon.
What a lovely yard you have with those bird feeders. I love them. I like wind chimes, too!
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