Backyard Birds: Yellow Bellied Sapsucker and White-breasted Nuthatch

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

White-breasted Nuthatch

These birds are more frequent visitors to our yard with the cooler weather.

White-breasted Nuthatch

 

Quite the acrobats, the nuthatches are.

White-breasted Nuthatch Hiding a Seed

The Stokes Field Guide to Birds says this about the Nuthatch. "Nuthatches are best known for their habit of storing food in bark crevices and their ability to move head first down trees enabling them to find food that "right-side up" birds like Woodpeckers might miss." That's exactly what we caught him doing in these pictures.

Winter Birds at the Bird Bath

White-breasted Nuthatch

Northern Mockingbird

Here's are photos of some winter birds having a drink at our new heated bird bath.

Nuthatch

The white-breasted nutcatches were common visitors last winter but we didn't see any this spring. A few have just returned to the area.

White-breasted Nuthatch

Nuthatch at Suet Feeder

Nuthatch