Suet Bandit

 
   These are photos of several Red-breasted nuthatches that feast at my feeders.

    Red-breasted nuthatches along with the White-breasted are  bundles of energy. The easiest way to tell them apart is by bandit mask sported by the red-breasted one. Their nesting grounds are  much farther north than their cousins so they head south sooner and appear here first in the fall. They feed off and on all day but they like the woodpeckers come in abundance in late afternoon. At that time my homemade suet is gone first. I had a friend drill small holes in a full length cedar tree trunk a few years ago when they're filled with suet that's a big hit. Quite often in the afternoon a lot of their energy is spent taking seed and hiding it for the next day.