Help with ID please - So Cal mountains at 4,500'
Started by Redfish, Nov 23 2012 02:02 AM
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#1
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:02 AM
Crawled around tree trunk eating at bark. But not pecking like a woodpecker.
#2
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:03 AM
You've got a White-breasted Nuthatch.
Ken Bryan
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#4
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:04 AM
I agree with White-breasted Nuthatch. One of the few birds that will climb down the tree head first!
#5
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:06 AM
Agreed, WB Nuthatch
Ryan
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#6
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:14 AM
Since it's seldom that I can ID with alacrity, I will fifth white breasted nuthatch.
Bette
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#7
Posted 23 November 2012 - 02:23 AM
Thank you very much!
#8
Posted 23 November 2012 - 04:13 AM
Definatly a Red Breasted Nut Hatch.
Thay eat bugs in the bark of the tree. They scurry around the tree like a mouse, and have no regarde to gravity. fun bird but fast.
Thay eat bugs in the bark of the tree. They scurry around the tree like a mouse, and have no regarde to gravity. fun bird but fast.
#9
Posted 23 November 2012 - 12:48 PM
It's a white-breasted, not a red-breasted. Red-breasteds have an eyeline and a reddish breast. The white-breasted has the rust color on its sides, but not on the breast.
Here are pics of a red-breasted.

Here are pics of a red-breasted.

#10
Posted 25 November 2012 - 06:30 AM
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