During my three-week stay, I heard the songs and calls of pygmy nuthatches more frequently than I visually observed them.

This is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Nuthatches are distinctive with short tails, long bills and bulky bodies. They are also ...

Pygmy nuthatches are frequent visitors to our winter suet feeder. Delightful small birds, Sitta pygmacea often perch upside down. Routinely, we see three to four, their quick movements captivating.

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas. The first impression is a small bird with a very white head and ...

The red-breasted nuthatch isn’t a bird that I expect to see every day, even when I look for them, so it was a pleasant surprise to find one drop in on my feeder array on the first day of last week’s ...

Old bones are cold bones, I've heard it said, and my old bones have been sticking pretty close to home. That's why I don't have a bird of my own to present this week. Instead, I decided to borrow one.

A few weeks ago, I participated in the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count, a yearly ritual of one-day bird counts that take place throughout December and into early January. My count area ...