First off, I want to wish you a Happy New Year. I hope that any effects of self-inflicted devastation have worn off and that you are able to kick back and relax on the first weekend of the New Year.

If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a white-breasted nuthatch. I’ve always ...

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 ...

HOW CAN SUCH HOMELY little birds be so cute? Nuthatches are small birds with a large bullet-shaped head and almost no neck. Their tails are very short; their bills, narrow and wickedly pointed. My ...

The red-breasted nuthatch isn’t a bird that I expect to see every day, even when I look for them, so it was a pleasant surprise to find one drop in on my feeder array on the first day of last week’s ...