A small bird with greyish-blue back and wings, rusty red/orange breast and underside, and black and white head and neck is hanging upside down under a lichen-covered tree branch. It is facing to the left.

The Red-breasted Nuthatch is a hardy little bird that hangs out in my part of eastern Canada all winter long. Like, literally hangs out.

Little Lepreau, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026

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A small bird with rust coloured breast and grey back with a white face and black mask running over its eyes is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch. It is facing to the left.

A small bird with rust coloured breast and grey back with a white face and black mask running over its eyes is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch. It is facing to the left with its neck outstretched as it looks at something below it.

Something has caught the attention of this Red-breasted Nuthatch!

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
August 2024

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A small bird with greyish-blue back and wings, rusty red/orange breast and underside, and black and white head and neck is hanging, seemingly counter to the laws of gravity, upside down from the side of a tree. It is facing to the left.

A small bird with greyish-blue back and wings, rusty red/orange breast and underside, and black and white head and neck is hanging, seemingly counter to the laws of gravity, upside down from the side of a tree with its neck craned at an impossible angle upward. It is facing to the left.

Red-breasted Nuthatch showing us its typical pose and also showing off how flexible it really is. (My neck hurts just looking at this.)

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

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A small bird with grey back, rusty red/orange breast, and black and white head and neck is standing on a mossy branch looking to the right.

Red-breasted Nuthatch taking whatever is off to the right very seriously.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
May 2024

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A small bird with rust coloured breast and grey back with a white face and black mask running over its eyes is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch with an out of focus green background.

It's always a good day when a Red-breasted Nuthatch stays still for 0.01 seconds so you can get a clean shot.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
August 2024

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A small grey bird with black and white head and orange breast is looking adorable perched in the crotch of a tree.

Red-breasted Nuthatch looking adorable, as always.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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A red-breasted nuthatch on a mossy branch.

Sometimes Red-breasted Nuthatches give you the best poses!

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
May 2024

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I love these little guys.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2023

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#FromTheArchives: Red-breasted Nuthatch playing peek-a-boo.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
October 2020

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I haven't seen as many Red-breasted Nuthatches this winter as I normally do. This photo is from last year.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2023

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Not sure which way is up? Maybe don't ask a Red-breasted Nuthatch for help with that.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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Red-breasted Nuthatch letting me know what it thinks of being paparazzied.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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Red-breasted Nuthatch defying gravity, as they do.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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A Red-breasted Nuthatch with a little morsel of something yummy.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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Red-breasted Nuthatch actually being still long enough for me to grab a photo.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2023

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