This little guy is one of my favorite birds. The first time I noticed one I thought it was some kind of small cardinal, primarily because of the shape of its head with the tuft on top.
The tufted titmouse is a soft gray color with a white belly that has a touch of rust right under its wings. The adult has a black mark right above its beak. It is a member of the Titmouse family which also includes variations of the chickadee. According to Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies, members of this family are “acrobatic when feeding” and the “sexes are usually alike.”
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Christine M. Grote 
A sweet little one. Nice photos!
Do you have these where you live?
One of my favorite birds!!! Love the pictures, Christine!!!! Thanks for sharing!
We think alike on this.
how beautiful!! You are so lucky to have all the wildlife around you!! We are just now seeing our first cardinal since we moved out here 8 yrs ago!! our cornfield is looking more and more like a home every year. We have 150 more evergreens on order for this Spring. As always, thanks for sharing and have a great day Christine!!
I feel lucky to be here surrounded by nature. I suppose it takes a while to see the fruits of your labors when you have such a big place. 150 trees. Wow. Will you plant them yourselves or have someone do it? That should help a lot with your bird friends.
And thank you for reading. One of these days I’ll have to get out to your farm and post about it. I would love that.
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Lovely photographs of one of my favorite birds! These beautiful doe-eyed birds are common visitors to our feeders. I love their scratchy call.
Thanks for stopping by, Julie. They’re pretty common here too.
I’m a birdwatcher myself. Beautiful photo of a beautiful bird’
Birdwatching has got to be one of the best hobbies. I need to learn more about it though if I intend to call myself a birdwatcher.
I have ALWAYS loved the tufteds. How can you not? Those wonderful beady little eyes? And that little mohawk? Yup. They are just the best.
Yes. They are a soft, sweet little bird.
It’s a pretty little thing!
Thanks, Susan. Good luck on Tuesday. Find out ahead of time if you are able to stay at the hospital with him if he has to stay. I didn’t realize I could and hadn’t planned for it. I wish I had.
How I love the Tufted Titmouse!! And you took phenomenal photos, I LOVE them! 🙂
Thanks, Julia. I take a million photos and then sort through for the best ones. I wish I could get more pictures in the natural habitat away from the feeders, but the feeders make it so easy.
We only see a couple of these in the winter, but they’re always a delight. I heard one yesterday… unless the mockingbird was playing a trick on me.
I have to get more in tune with the birds’ songs. I can’t say that I recognize many of them yet.
Beautiful pictures, Christine!
Thank you.
Great pictures Christine! I do question the accuracy of “sexes are usually alike.”
Perhaps Peterson should have said, “the sexes look alike for the most part.”
This is one beautiful little bird.. Thanks for sharing… Nature always manages to bring us JOY!.. Keep smiling.. Wishing you a good weekend with lots of Peace and Joy.. ~Sue xx
Nature does bring us joy. Hoping you had a good weekend too.
What a cutie! I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one in our yard.
(Sorry to have been gone all week. We had a guest visiting from Vietnam, but I think I’m back in the saddle again now.)
Hugs,
Kathy
How fun. I’m glad you were able to see an old friend. It’s tough keeping up with all this blogging stuff. No problem. I have no expectations, but I do enjoy seeing your comments, and reading your posts.
He looks very distinctive!
He is.
such a sweet little bird. you did a grand job of capturing him in images.
Thank you. He (or she) is a sweetie.
Beautiful slideshow Christine I love it thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Jake.
Great photos of cute little birds! We used to get a lot of tufted titmice when I lived in New York, because we had lots of hawthorn trees with berries on them.
Thanks. We used to have a hawthorn tree here, but it was all tangled up in the honeysuckle plants that run rampant in this area of the country. Out it came, when my husband evicted all the honeysuckle plants in that area of our yard.
These little guys are attracted to the bird feeders.
What a cute little bird! Your images are gorgeous. Well done. 🙂
Thanks, Robin. That means a lot coming from you.