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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

December 10, 2013
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

A friend stops me in the grocery store and ask what is the little woodpecker that clings to branches, with a black head, a white cheek, and a very short tail.

She's surprised to find out it's not a woodpecker at all but a white-breasted nuthatch. Nuthatch, he's called, because he hatchets nuts open for his food.

He makes a funny, nasal little sound, like someone holding his nose and saying yenk yenk yenk. I keep him well supplied with sunflower seeds to hatchet open.

White-breasted Nuthatch

—Diane Porter

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