Sitta canadensis
Red-breasted Nuthatches are compact, blue-gray birds with short tails, sharp bills, black caps with white eye stripes. As their name indicates their breasts are red colored and the breasts of females are a duller, lighter red than the males.
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch on a Douglas Fir bough
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch high up in a sky island mountain
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Adult Red-breasted Nuthatch upside down
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch nestled in a Douglas Fir
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch in bright morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch with a fir seed in its bill
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch hanging upside down from two fir cones
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch checking out a fir cone
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch clinging to a fir cone
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/5/2020
Title: Male Red-breasted Nuthatch in golden morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 4/20/2020
Title: Male Red-breasted Nuthatch in early morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 4/20/2020
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch checking out a Douglas Fir cone in autumn
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/7/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch on a chilly November morning
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/7/2019
Title: Male Red-breasted Nuthatch in a Douglas Fir tree
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/2/2019
Title: Female Red-breasted Nuthatch with a Douglas Fir seed
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/1/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch hanging upside down with a seed in its bill
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Eye level Red-breasted Nuthatch
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch trying to swallow a seed
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch high up in a fir
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Upside down Red-breasted Nuthatch eating a Douglas Fir seed
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Upside down Red-breasted Nuthatch clinging to a fir cone
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/31/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch checking out a Douglas Fir cone
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2019
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch feeding in firs
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/13/2018
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch on a Douglas Fir
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2018
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch at the edge of a mountain forest
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2018
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch giving me the eye
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2018
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch hanging upside down
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2018
Title: Red-breasted Nuthatch in the Stansbury Mountains
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2018