It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen one. One feeder, and only one, has been up for just a few weeks. Today though, I was treated to the arrival of one White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis). They’re usually permanent residents here.

This is the look of a male White-breasted Nuthatch, black, gray, and white. The female has more gray, and less black in its coloring, wearing gray, and white.

They’re birds I love to see. They’ll come to the feeder, take a seed, disappear, and quickly return for another. This behavior indicates it’s caching the seeds. Saving them for later. Hiding the seeds in cracks in the bark of trees in the area.

Such a simple thing, to feed the birds. And it brings me such pleasure.

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