As I glanced out the window from our den, I noticed "dried mealworms" has attracted another bird {besides the Cardinals} to our deck. In this case, he does have the beak of an insect-eater, but no "Hello, My Name is" tag.

[jbinpg]

Nice shots of a White-breasted Nuthatch.

[torashi]

Cute. And nice bait.

[ToddK]

Nice captures! Nuthatches are opportunistic feeders. They eat seed out of my bird feeders.

[reh321]

Nice shots of a White-breasted Nuthatch.

Thank you for your identification. After your post, I realized I should have known this bird, because last month I had seen it walking up-and-down the tree the squirrel feeder hangs from; I guess that "top view" of the bird showed much less white, thereby confusing me.

[reh321]

Cute. And nice bait.

Nice captures! Nuthatches are opportunistic feeders. They eat seed out of my bird feeders.

Thank you both of you for your comments.

[reh321]

A couple of days later, this guy showed up. I had to look twice - actually I had to compare photos - before I was certain that he is a completely different breed {body shape and beak are different}; I guess I'm just easily confused by birds.

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[pichaser]

Being new to birding I agree that getting the the names right is a challenge . Photos are quite helpful .

[gifthorse]

A couple of days later, this guy showed up. I had to look twice - actually I had to compare photos - before I was certain that he is a completely different breed {body shape and beak are different}; I guess I'm just easily confused by birds.

It's a Tufted titmouse.

[reh321]

It's a Tufted titmouse.

Thank you for identifying this one.