White-breasted Nuthatches appear to be equally comfortable walking upside down or right side up.

Ashbridge’s Bay is a good spot to see them up close as they will take seed from your hand:

Red-breasted Nuthatches will often greet you here with their tiny trumpet sounds and happily visit.

Other birds this morning at Ashbridge’s Bay:

MAILBOX

Today’s Guardian must have been written for us! This 20-minute documentary features two young, passionate wildlife enthusiasts. I believe they’re the hope for the future, and trust that they’ll inspire other young’uns. We need them! 😊

NATURE POETRY

I thought the sparrow’s note from heaven,
Singing at dawn on the alder bough;
I brought him home, in his nest, at even;
He sings the song, but it pleases not now,
For I did not bring home the river and sky;—
He sang to my ear,—they sang to my eye.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)

Miles Hearn