text: It was an average day on the preserve. The bird of the day was a Brown Creeper that I got to watch at pretty close range. It worked the side of a walnut tree probing the cracks and crevices for little bugs. I was close enough to see fairly clearly that it was good at what it does! I saw it turn its head and take a close look at the barks surface, then probe it’s bill into a crack and pull out an insect. A nice skill to have with the temperature is a few degrees below freezing when no insects would be active.
  Brown Creepers have always been a favorite bird of mine and sadly it is not a bird I see around here very often. Back in Washington State it was a common resident on many of my study sites. While it was never one of the species that I studied specifically, I would occasionally catch one in my mist nest. If you have never seen one of these little guys up close you are missing something! Check out photos of one that I caught back in 2003 here.
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