| You can see Nuthatches clinging to the sides of tree trunks
and branches amongst mature woodland searching for their diet of nuts, acorns,
seed and insects. The Nuthatch is unique amongst British birds in being
able to climb head down as well as up. Both sexes are similar in appearance:
blue-grey upper-parts, orangey under-parts with chestnut colouration on
its sides and under the tail. They have short-tails, white throats, long
black eyestripes and short legs with powerful toes. Their long black, pointed
bills are very powerful which they use to hammer open nuts sounding like
woodpeckers as they do so. The young are similar to adults except they have
less chestnut colouration underneath. |
