
I’m so glad I spent some time at home this afternoon. This gave me the opportunity to find the first Red-breasted Nuthatch that I have found visiting our backyard feeders. I so wanted to some how tell this little one that I would have seed available all winter long as it consistently went back and forth from the big oak to the feeder, each time carrying a sunflower seed to hide in the bark. I am pretty certain that this bird visited the feeder more than 50 times in the couple hours I watched.

Glad for you! Was just thinking how similar the red-breasted’s color scheme is to that of Eurasian Nuthatch, which led to a wiki search and new realization that this is a dominate scheme for many of the nearly 30 nuthatch species around the globe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthatch
beautiful bird, its so interesting how nuthatches seem to walk upside down.
Great observation of a rare visitor.