Winter Birds - Red Breasted Nuthatch

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“ ..I heard a low, chattering call and snow and flecks of bark rained down on me. On the branch above, a Red-Breasted Nuthatch wound its way under and over the limb, hopping like an up-side-down wind-up toy, a few inches at a time, probing into seemingly inaccessable nooks and crannies for hibernating insects. ”

An excerpt from Bill Kitzmiller's Kachemak Wilderness Notes.