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This Morning Outsideby Diane PorterDecember 10, 2013 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. —Diane Porter
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