Brown Creepers

[Carol Muth]

One Brown Creeper was on Spruce trees in our yard on January 2. Then, today, January 6, we saw two Brown Creepers. To our surprise they spent more time in the snow on the ground and at the mossy base of the spruce trees than they did climbing up the trunk, although they did a bit of that, too. Mid-February is the time when small insects in the Family Boreidae, that spend their lives in the moss and climb onto the snow to mate begin to be seen, although we haven't seen one in our yard, yet.