Brown Headed Nuthatch (1 Viewer)

We have had white breasted nuthatches ever since we moved into our house and I enjoy watching their flitty little movements extensively.

I know there has been a push in my area and on a bigger scale to build nestboxes for the brown headed nuthatch, to improve habitat for them and range.

I have seen some an hour away from my house but never locally.

Yesterday I noted nuthatches on my feeders (even some "storing" seeds under my shingles-mixed feelings on that!) I kind of thought their calls were odd but didn't even dwell on this. This morning I was waiting on a neighbor to come by to help on a yard project and I thought some of them visiting the feeders had brown heads. I got the bins out and watched several for a long while. They were brown headed nuthatches. They (along with black capped chickadees, white breasted nuthatches, finches, cardinals, and even a woodpecker) shared the feeders.

Glad to see another yard list bird and know one more species is dining at my birdie diner! :t:

UPDATE-

Only seen the BROWN HEADED nuthatches for about a week. Haven't seen one since although the WHITE BREASTED ones are daily visitors.

Perhaps a flock was merely passing through your area? Quite interesting. I just looked at a map, and realized that they live in the south - I hadn't realized that - thought perhaps they were western... I'm a big nuthatch fan and would like to see those Brown-headed ones.

The White-breasted Nuthatches are always here in Missouri and once in awhile the Red-breasted ones in the winter months, but we do get the Brown-headed ones down in south Missouri. Wish we would get the Brown-headed ones up here where we live in the northwest part of the state.