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| Red-breasted nuthatch |
Red-breasted nuthatches have arrived! They generally spend their winters farther north, but about once or twice a decade they move south seeking more abundant supplies of seeds and nuts. They're similar to the white-breasted nuthatches that live here year-round, but the red-breasted variety is more colorful and smaller, about the size of a chickadee. Too cute!
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| White-breasted nuthatch |
2 comments:
Does this mean we should expect a harsh winter? Or was there low seed production up north?
A highly-places source (meaning I don't recall where I picked up this factoid) suggests that the culprit is a collapse in the seed-cone supply in certain northern climes. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
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