No, of course not! This is just a Red-breasted Nuthatch with a very pale belly. Nuthatches have to be one of the most entertaining species to watch. Their acrobatics while moving around in tree branches are always interesting, and often pretty funny. Of course, maybe that says more about me, or us, than it does about Nuthatches, but there you go…what can you do?

This is, by the way, one of the first shots from my artificial-thicket-back-deck-bird-feeding-station which I built only on Saturday! This was Sunday, about 6PM. We had, during an hour or so when my wife and I were actively watching the station: American Tree Sparrow, American Goldfinch, N. Chickadee, Plain Titmouse, Hairy, Downy, and Red-bellied Woodpecker, a Blue Jay, and a squirrel. I’d say the atbdbfs is working!

Until the weather is considerably better, I will be shooting through two panes of window glass separated by about an inch of air (the sliding deck door), so I am actually pretty happy with this shot.

Canon SX50HS. Program with iContrast and Auto Shadow Control. –1/3EV exposure compensation. f6.5 @ 1/125th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness. Auto color balance to remove the blue tint from the glass. Since I expect to be shooting birds at the atbdbfs often, I have already created a Lightroom preset to handle the challenge, which I call, of course, “glass.”