Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 19
(No 5)
[March 19, 1911]

White-bellied Nuthatches

  The Nuthatches were at the suet for half-an-hour
or more this morning. The [male] again kept the [female] from
alighting on it and again gave to her many
of the pieces he chiseled out of it with his sharp
bill. But on this occasion she ate every one
of them the moment she received them from
him. He did not seem to object to this
although whenever she was not near at hand
he would fly off with the pieces and
cache them in crevices & under bark as he
did on the morning of the 17th. The [female] is
a very handsome one. Indeed her crown & nape
are so nearly or largely black that we
have some difficulty in distinguishing her
from the male, especially when the light
is not good.