We have observed a pair of red-breasted nuthatches visiting our  mixed
nut/seed feeder since Oct. 23, 2007.  This is a commercial bag of  mixed seed/nuts.
We also provide homemade peanut butter suet cakes with  black oil sunflower
mixed in.  They seem to avoid the suet but love the  commerical mix.  At first
they would feed as a pair; now, the male and  the female feed separately.
They never fly off in the  same direction--sometimes north, sometimes south,
sometimes west, sometimes  east; and they are impossible to follow.  It's
interesting to watch such a  small bird fly off with half a peanut in its beak--it's
got to ruin its  aerodynamics.

This means that these two have been with us for 6 months and 10  days (if
they are the same pair).

Ed and Bev Neubauer
Englewood, Ohio



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