Nuthatch

The nuthatch is a bird that lives in forests and mountains.

Nuthatches have rather a habit of entering houses through open windows, probably out of curiosity; and we owed to this habit a pet nuthatch, which became extremely tame, and used to take flies from our finger.

The bird was in very faded plumage with only a slight rusty wash to the underparts, and had I not heard the call, I might have mistaken it for a Pygmy Nuthatch.

Considered a resident bird, the red-breasted nuthatch usually winters in the coniferous forests within its breeding range.