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🌎 White-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) #NorthAmericanBirds | #WhiteBreastedNuthatch #SittaCarolinensis | #Nuthatches #NuthatchFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by JackBulmer🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

White Breasted Nuthatch - RBG

Species: Sitta carolinensis

The White-breasted Nuthatch is normally territorial throughout the year, with pairs staying together. The male has to spend more time looking out for predators when he’s alone than while he’s with his mate. That’s the pattern for most birds, and one reason why birds spend so much time in flocks. But the female nuthatch has to put up with the male pushing her aside from foraging sites, so she spends more time looking around (for him) when he’s around than when she is alone.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-breasted_Nuthatch/overview

Hendrie Trails is a 100-hectare sanctuary is centred on the Grindstone Creek Valley. It stretches to Carroll’s Point in Hamilton Harbour, and contains an extensive collection of floodplain wetlands.

Location: Hendrie Trails, Royal Botanical Gardens. Burlington, ON
Camera info/settings
- Canon 7D Mark II, Sigma 150-600
- Various

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White-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis
Location: Hendrie Valley Trails, Royal Botanical Gardens

The North Bridle trail of the Hendrie Valley trails is a fantastic part of this lovely trail system. It doesn’t have the boardwalks of the other trails but we came across this perfectly lit section. The late fall colours glowed in the mid-day sun. In the same 10 meters we saw these Nuthatches, a Downy woodpecker, Black-capped Chickadees, and of course there was an Eastern Chipmunk. Sadly I assume this is because people continue to feed the wildlife contrary to all the warnings but I am so happy to have had the chance to get these shots.

Camera info/settings
- Canon 450D Sigma 150-600
- ISO 800 f7.1 1/800s

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