Brown Creeper

Description
5-5 3/4". A slender, streaked, brown bird, tinged with buff on flanks; usually seen creeping up tree trunks, using its long stiff tail for support.
Voice
A high-pitched, lisping tsee; song a tinkling, decending warble.
Habitat
Deciduous and mixed woodlands.
Nesting
6 or 7 white eggs, lightly speckled with vrown , in a cup of bark shreds, fearhers,sticks, and moss usually placed against a tree trunk behind a peeling slab of bark.
Other
This inconspicuos bird is often detected by its soft, lisping call as it works its way up a tree trunk, probing the bark for insects. In late winter and spring, one may sometimes hear its song- a thin, musical warble. Unlike the nuthatch, it moves only up a tree trunk; having reached the top, it flies down to the base of another tree and repeats its spiral ascent.
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