I don’t know about you, but I find the Brown Creeper to be a difficult bird to see. I can count my sightings over the past 30 years on the fingers of one hand! And that is odd, since they must be, logically, much more common than that. They must have been in every wood I have walked through in that 30 years, just about. On the flip side, I have seen them across much of North America. New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Maine. That is certainly a wide geographic range. In fact, if you take a look at the range map at All About Birds, you can see that the Brown Creeper is found pretty much everywhere there are trees in North America.

This bird was at the Nature Conservancy’s Beanery property in Cape May, New Jersey, and was, like all my Creeper sightings, a chance encounter. I just caught movement on the trunk of the tree as I passed. By the time I found the bird it was out on limb and moving rapidly, in challenging light, but I managed a few shots.

Canon SX50HS in Program. -1/3 EV exposure compensation and iContrast. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.