{"id":161892,"date":"2025-10-28T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=161892"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:56:30","slug":"red-breasted-nuthatch-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/10\/28\/red-breasted-nuthatch-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Nuthatch Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red-breastedRed-breasted Nuthatch foraging in the Stansbury Mountains of Utah \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/250, ISO 800, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The weather has kept me out of the field lately, so today I wanted to share a few Red-breasted Nuthatch memories since I\u2019ve been seeing and hearing them recently.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been hearing Red-breasted Nuthatches in the trees where I live but haven\u2019t been able to get good views or photographs of them.<\/p>\n

Here I only see Red-breasted Nuthatches in the fall and winter. In Utah, I could find, see, hear, and photograph this nuthatch species year round.<\/p>\n

I took this Red-breasted Nuthatch photo at a North Willow Canyon campground in the Stansbury Mountains, which are out in the West Desert of Utah.<\/p>\n

In 2018 I went exploring in the canyons of that mountain range because I knew that ‘routines’ were causing me to miss out on forest and mountain birds.<\/p>\n

My explorations were spot on and I soon observed, photographed, and enjoyed those bird species. The only problem I really faced was that some of those canyons closed after the first snows of the season and didn’t reopen until spring.<\/p>\n

I savored every quiet moment I had with the Red-breasted Nuthatches in the West Desert and the other mountain birds I found out there.<\/p>\n

Red-breasted Nuthatches<\/span><\/a> don\u2019t breed where I live now, but White-breasted Nuthatches do. I truly enjoy getting to see both of these nuthatch species.<\/p>\n

If I go and do more exploring here, I might even get to photograph Pygmy Nuthatches too.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Red-breasted Nuthatch photos plus facts and information on this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weather has kept me out of the field lately, so today I wanted to share a few Red-breasted Nuthatch memories since I\u2019ve been seeing and hearing them recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161889,"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":[27,3700,1316,358,26,1314],"tags":[4004,9541,970,6877,4620,8009,6909,4136,5370,6454,4069,16911,4927,4928,6878,3701,3702,10452,4210,2214,30],"class_list":["post-161892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-red-breasted-nuthatches","category-stansbury-mountains-utah","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-adult","tag-alpine-forest","tag-autumn","tag-douglas-fir","tag-fall","tag-fir","tag-firs","tag-foraging","tag-forest","tag-hanging","tag-mountains","tag-north-willow-canyon","tag-nuthatch","tag-nuthatches","tag-pseudotsuga-menziesii","tag-red-breasted-nuthatch","tag-sitta-canadensis","tag-sky-island-mountains","tag-stansbury-mountains","tag-upside-down","tag-utah-2"],"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