Brown Creeper

Description: 5-5 3/4" a slender, streaked, brown bird, tinged with buff on flanks, usually seen creeping up or down tree trunks, using it's long stiff tail for support	Habitat: Mixed forests, conifers, dense swampy forests with dead trees. Forages by spiraling upward from base of tree toward branches, then flies to another tree and begins again. Inconspicuous but fairly common.
Nesting: 6-7 white eggs, lightly speckled with brown, in a cup of bark shreds, sticks, feathers, and moss usually placed against a tree trunk behind a peeling slab of bark	Range: breeds from Alaska east through Ontario, southward to Gulf Coast
Voice: a high pitched lisping tsee, song a tinkling, descending warble	Diet: insects nuts, seeds, spiders, other invertebrates; some acorns, beechnuts. Young may be fed 100% animal food.

Notes: Uses tail as a prop when climbing up tree trunk. Usually seen alone, occasionally with chickadees and other small birds, use camouflage pattern when pursued: land on tree trunk, flatten, spread wings and remain motionless, normally feed by ascending trunk in spiral or straight course, then dropping to repeat on another trunk, male feeds incubating female, female broods, young can creep upward as soon as mobile, fledglings roost in tight circle, heads to center

When present in Oklahoma: present statewide in winter only