Red-breasted Nuthatch

Edited for CamFan(Steve).
A first for me. I was worried I would never see one. Everywhere I went that is supposed to be a favored habitat I could not find them.

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Beautiful bird in a classic pose. Wells done. They love peanuts and suet. Put up a peanut and a suet feeder and they are sure to find it!

Wow John I just take them for granted, good on you

Congratulations! Nice shot! We have the White-breasted version here.

What a cool catch, John! Their white breasted cousins are one of my all time favorites! Beautiful shot!

butterfly2937 wrote in post #16929797
Beautiful bird in a classic pose. Wells done. They love peanuts and suet. Put up a peanut and a suet feeder and they are sure to find it!

Thank you Carol. I live in an apartment in the middle of a metro area. No luck there. I am hoping to get a place at the edge of town to do just that though.

Pondrader wrote in post #16929801
Wow John I just take them for granted, good on you

Thanks Jeff.

heyBJK wrote in post #16929867
Congratulations! Nice shot! We have the White-breasted version here.

Thank you Brian. We have all three if you look in the right areas. I captured my best shots yet of a White-breasted today, too.

grizzerbear wrote in post #16929872
What a cool catch, John! Their white breasted cousins are one of my all time favorites! Beautiful shot!

Thanks Barry.

Nuthatch always seem to defy gravity. Nice find and photo John

They are definitely little speed demons John so congrats on catching up to this one. You found it almost right side up......no mean feat. Am I being too critical if I mention your background noise?
I'm partial to Nuthatches in general, so I was over the moon when one visited me 2 winters ago.

jhayesvw wrote in post #16929924
Nuthatch always seem to defy gravity. Nice find and photo John

Thanks Jeremy, that they do.

CamFan01 wrote in post #16929934
They are definitely little speed demons John so congrats on catching up to this one. You found it almost right side up......no mean feat. Am I being too critical if I mention your background noise?
I'm partial to Nuthatches in general, so I was over the moon when one visited me 2 winters ago.

Thanks Steve. I did not run the shot through PS to knock down the background noise. I need to get into a habit of doing that always. I will be denoising in PS soon.

Very nice, and to find one without a feeding station...even better!

Thanks Sandy. I am very happy to find one indeed.

Great shot, John. Just the WB variety here so far this year but I am hoping.

Excellent John. I too have only seen the WB version of this little bird.

Lovely clean shots John.

Great shot. They have a very distinctive call. If you learn it you'll hear them almost every time you're in the Sierra Nevada conifer forest.