Red-breasted Nuthatch
This guys been hanging around my place this winter. He was dacha bird #138. Am now up to 143. This is a digi-bin pix.

This guys been hanging around my place this winter. He was dacha bird #138. Am now up to 143. This is a digi-bin pix.

Several first of season for me today at my place. Cranes, w throat sparrow, hermit thrush, mr Lincoln, spot towhee and just now woodcock. It don’t hurt much
Here’s a cool little visitor to the hot tub last night I also heard them on Masters telecast yesterday.
I found this list of ABA countable introduced species helpful. Article at ABA
Here’s a question: does anyone know the answer without checking field guide? (I only know cause I learned it just now. I saw it): What color is a juvenile cardinal’s bill this time of year?
Here’s my second lifer of the trip. Also from near Lincoln, Montana in same burned woodlands. Although we didn’t study this one in B3, I think you can figure it out
Who am I? (Fort Davis area).