Any Birders on here?

Rockytopsis · #1 02/02/13, 09:28 AM

This is a slide show of a new bird I have seen at my feeder for the last few days. I am in Middle East Tennessee.

Any Birders on here? - Countryside Families

Thanks
Nancy

Danaus29 · #2 02/02/13, 09:40 AM

Looks like a Pygmy Nuthatch IMO, but according to the maps more likely a Brown Headed Nuthatch:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax/54/

Mattemma · #3 02/02/13, 09:43 AM

Cool! Reminds me of my chickadees.What type is it?

Rockytopsis · #4 02/02/13, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Danaus29

Looks like a Pygmy Nuthatch IMO, but according to the maps more likely a Brown Headed Nuthatch:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax/54/

I looked up brown headed nuthatch and that is it Thanks, just never seen this bird at my feeder before.
Nancy

lenii · #5 02/02/13, 10:38 AM

It hangs upside down at times...cool

Txsteader · #6 02/02/13, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by lenii

It hangs upside down at times...cool

Did you know that when hummingbirds go into a deep sleep called torpor, they sometimes sleep hanging upside down? Darndest thing you've ever seen, you'd swear they were dead.

Homesteader · #7 02/02/13, 11:39 AM

Awww she's beautiful!

Nimrod · #8 02/02/13, 12:17 PM

When I looked at the pics my first thought was nuthatch but we get white breasted and red breasted up here in MN and it isn't one of them.

Nuthatches are the only bird I know of that can walk down a tree trunck upside down. Observe this bird and see if it can do this.