Your day's wildlife

[laurentian]

TBH although I live in Warrington we used to get them/it regularly. Then they ripped the local woodland down for 1200 houses. This is the 1st Nuthatch I've seen for a long time now.

I'm pretty much always looking at birds (although I wouldn't call myself a "birdwatcher"). From memory, I have only ever seen two nuthatches within a 10 mile radius of where I live and probably less than 10, anywhere, in my life. I know they are not considered especially rare but its a great thrill when I do see one.

 

[Dave7]

I'm pretty much always looking at birds (although I wouldn't call myself a "birdwatcher"). From memory, I have only ever seen two nuthatches within a 10 mile radius of where I live and probably less than 10, anywhere, in my life. I know they are not considered especially rare but its a great thrill when I do see one.

I will check that out, thanks.
I used to do a lot of birdwatching (not an expert though) and got to know where you were in with a good chance of seeing birds like Nuthatch, Treecreeper or Kingfisher etc but have no idea how territorial Nuthatches are.

 

[Dave7]

I'm pretty much always looking at birds (although I wouldn't call myself a "birdwatcher"). From memory, I have only ever seen two nuthatches within a 10 mile radius of where I live and probably less than 10, anywhere, in my life. I know they are not considered especially rare but its a great thrill when I do see one.

Google tells me that, yes, they are extremely territorial. A pair will mate for life and defend thier territory against even larger birds.
Depending on who you believe.....a pair require minimum 5 acres** of good suitable land.
** I can't compute that to mtrs x mtrs or miles x miles.......maybe you can. One estimate is 1 miles x 400 feet (what's that in English )

 

[laurentian]

Google tells me that, yes, they are extremely territorial. A pair will mate for life and defend thier territory against even larger birds.
Depending on who you believe.....a pair require minimum 5 acres** of good suitable land.
** I can't compute that to mtrs x mtrs or miles x miles.......maybe you can. One estimate is 1 miles x 400 feet (what's that in English )

As I understand it, they generally inhabit oak woodland - this concurs with the last place I saw one. I have been back there a few times (usually when passing on the bike) to see if I can see another but I've had no luck although I have heard them. I see Kingfishers quite regularly and the odd tree creeper. Used to see lots more treecreepers when there were loads of old elm trees around (incidentally, small bird climbing up a trunk = treecreeper, small bird climbing down = nuthatch). The territory thing could explain why I've never seen more than one in a single instance - thanks.