Brown Creeper Carrying Food At Nest
Nest Photo by Greg Clark, June 2001, Mt Graham AZ
The Brown Creeper is typically found walking up
the trunk of a pine tree in search of food. Exhausting a tree
for food, the bird will fly to another pine nearby and begin walking
from the bottom toward the top. Camoflaged to blend in with tree
bark, a Brown Creeper is very difficult to spot even when moving.
Usually the bird is detected by ear. What a surprise to see one
of these small, elusive birds sitting on a branch, holding a bug
and looking right at me. Realizing I was right on top of the nest,
I set up my camera and waited for the bird to reveal the nest
site. The photograph shows a typical pine loose-bark nest. Somewhere
inside the bark are the babies, perhaps near where the two small
sticks are protruding.
This
shows the bird entering the loose bark nest. It was hard to tell
just where the baby birds might be because the adult bird would
enter from a number of vertical locations along the bark opening.
Both adults brought food to the nest at about the same time.
The sound recording for the birds at this site can be downloaded below.
Another
Brown Creeper in the Sierra Nevada mountains, June, 2007 at another
pine loose-bark nest site.
Photo Greg Clark, 2007
download mpeg3 recording (brcr_fil1.mp3)
Copyright Greg Clark, 2001
update 8/2012
