Red-breasted Nuthatch

Description: 4 1/2-4 3/4" smaller than a sparrow, male has blue-gray upperparts, pale rusty underparts, crown and line through eye black, female similar but crown is gray	Habitat: Balsam fir and spruce forests. Forages on small branches and outer twigs of conifer tree or probes rapidly around trunk. May move south in winters when seed crop is poor on breeding grounds.
Nesting: 5-6 white eggs spotted with red-brown, in a solid cup of twigs and grass lined with softer material and placed in a tree cavity, entrance usually smeared with pitch to discourage predators	Range: breeds from Alaska east across Canada, south to California, to Great Lakes, New England, south to Carolinas, winters in breeding range a sparsely south to Gulf Coast
Voice: a tiny yank-yank higher pitched and more nasal than call of White-breasted Nuthatch	Diet: insects and in winter coniferous seeds, young fed 100% animal food

Notes: will visit feeders for suet, but much less than White-breasted cousin, pairs remain together through winter

When present in Oklahoma: few in winter months, not seen during summer months