April 2024 Moment in Nature

A nest building attempt in 2017

Having birds that feel confident to nest in your yard is a great feeling: they feel safe and they feel like there is food enough to raise their babies. This month I realized that a pair of brown-headed nuthatches had built a nest is one of the dead pine snags that I have left just for them.

This snag is not far from the driveway, and I hear their calls when I'm working in the area or just going to the mailbox.

I'm excited to be able to contribute to the population of brown-headed nuthatches; it is a bird that needs pine snags in our woodlands. This discovery is my #momentinnature for this month.