One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy woodpeckers, ...

Upperparts are blue-gray, similar in color ... the red-breasted nuthatch), but white-breasteds in the Rockies regularly move onto the Great Plains, and some northern birds disperse.

The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its ... and undertail coverts. Adult female: similar to male, but black on head is paler, more lead-colored, often contrasting with blacker ...