A hidden wildlife camera captured a nuthatch clinging beside a natural hollow in the trunk of an old tree. With its compact ...

Jan. 4—One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy ...

Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...

Back in 2004, in what now seems like another life, I had a memorable experience on my way to work. Walking east along Wacker Drive, I noticed what looked like a leaf floating toward the sidewalk. It ...

Less gregarious than other nuthatches, the white-breasted nuthatch is typically seen singly or in pairs. In fall and winter, it regularly forms small mixed-species flocks, but a single flock rarely ...

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The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to deter ...

A rare species of bird that was thought to be extinct has been rediscovered by University of East Anglia students. The Bahama nuthatch has been found alive and well on the island of Grand Bahama in ...

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Meeting of the Waters, Teesdale: Humans have to be wary of poisonous yew trees. Not so these masked bandits A treasured old guide to wildflowers, a birthday gift 60 years ago, sits, dog-eared, on my ...