If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Red-Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)

1/17/05 Pine forest near Washburn Day Use Area, San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Red-Breasted Nuthatch

SPECIES: Sitta canadensis

FAMILY: Sittidae (Nuthatches)

LIFE LIST DATE: 1/17/2005

LOCATION: Morro Bay Winter Birding Festival event "Birding Multiple Habitats-San Simeon (with docents Phil & Carole Adams). One observed in Monterey pines at Washburn Day Use Area, San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, CA

From Kaufman Focus Guide-Birds of North America:

HABITAT/BEHAVIOR: Favors dense conifers of the north and high mountains in summer, but may be in other trees, especially in fall migration. Often rather quiet and tame. In some years, large numbers move south and into lowlands in fall.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 4 1/2"; Typical head-down nuthatch behavior, black eye stripe, white eyebrow. Buffy orange below, blue-gray back. 

VOICE: Nasal hennk, hennk, rather high and soft. 
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