Nut Job
If you hadn't ever seen a nuthatch before, one of the few birds that can not only walk up but down a tree easily, you might think you were seeing things!
Their name comes from the fact they will lodge a nut or acorn into tree bark then "hatch" the nut by knocking it with their beaks.
This specimen is a white-breasted nuthatch male. Taken on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Washington, D.C. area.
Nut Job
If you hadn't ever seen a nuthatch before, one of the few birds that can not only walk up but down a tree easily, you might think you were seeing things!
Their name comes from the fact they will lodge a nut or acorn into tree bark then "hatch" the nut by knocking it with their beaks.
This specimen is a white-breasted nuthatch male. Taken on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Washington, D.C. area.