The Nuthatches are still feeding their young in the 
Nuthatches 
feeding 
young in 
nest 
nest in the elm in front of the barn, I watched them for 
nearly half an hour this morning. They usually came to the 
nest once every two or three minutes. When one came just 
after the other had fed the young and was apparently about 
to leave the branch, it often transferred its morsel of food 
to the bill of its mate,who at once turned about and entered 
the hole with it for the young. Whenever I watched this 
closely, it was the female who brought and the male who 
received and took in,the food. This was always a small 
rounded object like a beetle or its larva. 
