{"id":135709,"date":"2024-10-15T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=135709"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:44:49","slug":"female-white-breasted-nuthatch-on-an-autumn-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/10\/15\/female-white-breasted-nuthatch-on-an-autumn-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Female White-breasted Nuthatch On An Autumn Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was thrilled to have a female White-breasted Nuthatch in my viewfinder for about a minute. I really wish she would had stayed a little bit longer.<\/p>\n

\"FemaleFemale White-breasted Nuthatch on a wooden post \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/5000, ISO 2000, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m always excited to focus on nuthatches, listen to their calls, and watch them move around on the trees and feeder. White-breasted Nuthatches are also quite striking because of their black-and-white plumage.<\/p>\n

Around this time of year in Utah, I\u2019d be heading to the sky island mountains of the West Desert to look for Red-breasted Nuthatches and check out their food source, the seeds of Douglas Firs. I\u2019d photograph them until the roads were closed due to snow.<\/p>\n

During the winter, I\u2019d occasionally see them at my bird feeders.<\/p>\n

Red-breasted Nuthatches are found in both Arkansas and Oklahoma, so hopefully I’ll see and photograph them again.<\/p>\n

I just saw one last evening, my first for Arkansas!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"White-breastedWhite-breasted Nuthatch female hanging onto a wooden post \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/6400, ISO 2000, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m having great fun photographing White-breasted Nuthatches, like this female. I love listening to their calls<\/span><\/a> and seeing the flashes of black and white when they are on the wing. They are gorgeous.<\/p>\n

\"FemaleFemale White-breasted Nuthatch on a driftwood perch \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/2500, ISO 2000, Canon 100-400mm at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first time I am fairly certain I have photographed a female White-breasted Nuthatch. If I am mistaken, please let me know; I’d sincerely appreciate the correction.<\/p>\n

Females have blue-gray crowns and napes, while males have black crowns and napes. To my eyes, the crown and nape of this nuthatch seemed more blue-gray than black.<\/p>\n

Even though my time with this White-breasted Nuthatch was brief, I enjoyed every second.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see my White-breasted Nuthatch photos. I will be adding more when I have time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was thrilled to have a female White-breasted Nuthatch in my viewfinder for about a minute. I really wish she would had stayed a little bit longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13950,27,13951,14036],"tags":[4004,13965,970,1996,4620,13981,4070,13931,15014,4927,4928,4104,13964,14038,15824,14037,8917,13966],"class_list":["post-135709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arkansas","category-avian","category-sebastian-county","category-white-breasted-nuthatches","tag-adult","tag-arkansas","tag-autumn","tag-driftwood","tag-fall","tag-feeder","tag-female","tag-garden","tag-hanging-on","tag-nuthatch","tag-nuthatches","tag-perched","tag-sebastian-county","tag-sitta-carolinensis","tag-suburban","tag-white-breasted-nuthatch","tag-wooden-post","tag-yard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t