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Greg Giesy

Photographing a White-Breasted Nuthatch

I was with a group of birders walking through Delta Ponds to see what we could see. Every outing you’re on you see different birds, in various locations, and they are doing different things.

This season there has been a White-Breasted Nuthatch staying at one particular tree. It is never a sure thing when birding, but it did not disappoint. The nuthatch was on the southside of the trunk of the tree and quickly went around the trunk to the northside above where a branch had broken off leaving a hole that had rotted out with evidence of an animal gnawing or scratching at the hole.

The bird quickly looked both ways like it didn’t want anyone seeing what it was doing then dove head first into the hole coming out with a sunflower seed probably left by a squirrel.

I managed to take nine photographs of the nuthatch’s story before it flew off with its prize.

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