Nuthatches are tree-creepers, but climbing up or down with equal ease, their tail is not employed as a prop, and consequently shows no special development of pointed or stiffened feathers.
Feeding largely on the eggs or larvA| of insects particularly injurious to trees, the Nuthatches and Titmice are of great value to man.
This species and the three Nuthatches are our only birds that creep down as well as up; but the Nuthatches wear no body stripes and are otherwise too unlike the Creeper to be confused with him.
Two nuthatches came one day to have their share in this repast, and were so well pleased that they became quite familiar, and did not even go away in the following spring, to get their natural food and to build their nest in the wood.
Pygmy Nuthatches are not merely sociable; they are almost gregarious.
The Nuthatches immediately swarmed out and set upon the Harris with vigor and language.
The Nuthatches appear to leave their eggs during the warmer hours of the day, and one must await the return of the truant owners if he would be sure of identification.
The Woodpecker was disposed to stand his ground, whereat the Nuthatches became highly enraged and charged upon the intruder so vigorously that the poor fellow was obliged to dodge about his chosen limb in lively fashion.
Nuthatches are called upon to endure the rigors of a northern climate with its occasional drop to thirty below; but this does not give them or their fellows great concern, because of the unfailing character of their food supply.
Nuthatches are not methodical, like Creepers, in their search for insects,--they are haphazard and happy.
The berries ripen in July and August, and at Naini Tal one rarely comes across a complete spike because the nuthatches pounce upon every berry the moment it is ripe.
Half a dozen nuthatches attacking one of the red spikes of this plant present a pretty sight.
Chickadees and nuthatches pick the tiniest insect eggs out of the crevices, and flickers hunt everywhere for ants.
Nuthatches nest in holes, either deserted woodpecker nests or natural holes in trees.
I place fragments of hickory-nuts in the interstices of the bark, and thus attract the nuthatches; a bone upon my window-sill attracts both nuthatches and the downy woodpecker.
The wrens and the nuthatches and chickadees succeed to these abandoned cavities, and often have amusing disputes over them.
The only ones of my winter neighbors that actually rap at my door are the nuthatches and woodpeckers, and these do not know that it is my door.
The nuthatches frequently pass the night in them, and the wrens and chickadees nest in them.
The little nuthatches and the little woodpeckers are calling and I saw two crows flying north.
Only a few hardy chickadees, woodpeckers, and nuthatches that defy even the coldest northern winter had remained behind the migrating hosts.
In the depths of the woods the white-breasted nuthatches were holding a friendly interview.
But what kind of nests do the rock nuthatches construct on their limestone walls?
Odd as it may seem to the uninformed, the nuthatchesbelong to the order of passeres or perching birds, in spite of their creeping habits.
I found these pretty nuthatches in the pine woods on Mackinac Island in midsummer, and have good reason to believe that they breed there.
One autumn I found a number of these nuthatches associated with a flock of myrtle warblers on the most sociable terms in a pine woodland not far from Pensacola, Florida.
True, the other feathered clamberers and carpenters are fully as useful, but depend upon it, the nuthatches do their share in preserving our forests and orchards.
The world over, there are twenty distinct species of nuthatches known to scientific observers, but only four of them are natives of America.
During the season of incubation and brood rearing the nuthatches retire to the depth of the woods, and are quiet, secretive, and unsocial, seldom betraying their procreant secrets.
In this case the Nuthatches had selected for nesting purposes a knot hole in a large oak, at a height of about twenty-five feet from the ground.
This is an undisputed fact, as different species of acorns have been seen securely wedged in between the bark and outer woody layers of trees, and Nuthatches in positions as to lead to the suspicion that they had placed them there.
The chickadees and nuthatches always build a soft little nest of grass, leaves, and feathers, while the woodpeckers lay their eggs on a bed of chips, and carry nothing in from outside.
The chickadees, the crested titmice, and the nuthatches dig their own holes after the same pattern as the woodpecker's.
The nuthatches are the only birds likely to be confused with woodpeckers, and these have the peculiar habit of traveling down a tree-trunk with their heads pointing to the ground.
In winter he attaches himself to strolling bands of nuthatches and chickadees, and in summer is fond of making friendly visits among village folk, frequenting the shade trees of the streets and grapevines of back gardens.
These diminutive Nuthatchesare found in the southern states.
Their tails are short and square, and nearly always pointed toward the zenith, for Nuthatches usually clamber among the branches and down the tree trunks, head first.
The squirrels are now venturing out, and the woodpeckers and nuthatches run briskly up the trees.
Careful observation has disclosed that the Nuthatches do not suck the sap from trees, but that they knock off bits of decayed or loose bark with the beak to obtain the grubs or larvae beneath.
The Nuthatches associate familiarly with the Kinglets and Titmice, and often travel with them.
I once saw twoNuthatches at what I then supposed was a new habit.
Chapman climbed up the mountainside to see me, and, while resting on the way up, he beheld twenty-seven nuthatches emerge from a hole in a pine.
One autumn day, while watching beneath a pine, I saw fifteen brown nuthatches issue from a woodpecker's hole in a dead limb.
Towards the end of the month some of the nuthatchesand the robins begin to tune up.
As the month draws to its close many a pair of nuthatches (Sitta castaneiventris) may be observed seeking for a hollow in which to nestle.
From every standpoint the nuthatches are most desirable acquaintances, and we cannot spend our time to better advantage than in getting familiar with their interesting habits.
The nuthatchesand chickadees hunt together all winter.
The nuthatches get their name from their habit of wedging nuts and acorns into bark and then hatching them open.
They are often with nuthatches and downy woodpeckers.
Red-bellied nuthatches were calling, and warblers uncounted were flitting about in the trees and underbrush.
Throughout December, and indeed throughout the winter, brown creepers and red-bellied nuthatches were surprisingly abundant.
Overhead, in the tops of the tall pines, werenuthatches and chicadees, and shortly after a host of pine finches.
The busy brown tree-creeper traced the crannies of the wrinkled oaks; the nuthatches followed, and their complaining squeaks seemed expressive of disappointment that so little food was to be found.
One cold and cloudy November morning I thought I had caught a pair ofnuthatches that had betrayed their trust.
After walking about thirty rods, a pair of nuthatches were found; the next ten minutes were spent listening and looking for the other birds that should have been about.
Catbirds and robins are among the most abundant breeders, while chickadees and white-breasted nuthatches are less often seen.
Nuthatches are those blue-backed, white or rufous breasted little climbers who spend their lives defying the law of gravity.
A chickadee and one of thenuthatches see a tempting morsel at the same time.
The metallic quanks of a pair of nuthatches call attention to the upper branches of a big white oak.
Nest: Red-breasted nuthatches will excavate their own cavity if a natural cavity or woodpecker hole is not available or to their liking (de Kiriline 1952).
Food: Brown-headed nuthatches are mainly insectivorous, and are considered a useful protector of trees.
Nuthatches may also be attracted to feeders with suet and sunflower seeds.
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