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White Breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis

Photo by bjohnson
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Description:

This nuthatch has blue/gray upperparts and a black crown and neck with a white face and underparts. Very common around our feeders in our back yard on Chebeague.

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White-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornit…

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Comments (3)
Darwin26
definately a bird for timelapse photography... or spray glue :) thank you,
KarenL
Nice shot! We have a few of these little guys but they are very hard to photograph as they always seem to be on the move!

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PublishedNovember 4, 2011

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