This is Bird Note.

Bird Note!

Nut hatches rank high on the list of favorite backyard birds.

Compact and stub-tailed, they climb down trunks and along the underside of branches with

comical ease. One at a time they flit in for suet and sunflower seats.

But out in the woods, where they spend most of their time,

nut hatches are hard to spot. Still, even unseen, they give themselves away with their voices.

It's a drawn out nasal quality that marks the calls of a red-breasted nut hatch.

These calls are often transcribed as yank, yank. Red-breasted nut hatches sometimes call rapidly,

too, but the nasal edge still rings true.

By comparison, the calls of the larger white-breasted nut hatch have a louder, more honking quality.

Here's the smaller red-breasted nut hatches nasal yank, yank, and white-breasted one more time.

Next time in the woods, keep an ear out for nut hatches.

For birdnode, I'm Mary McCann.