Help ID a yard bird?

[Betty Widerski]

This bird with gray and black patches (no white) was in my East Arlington yard this morning at 7am, foraging on the ground between a feeder and a birdbath. It was about the size of a large sparrow, maybe slightly larger. It was alone, and scattered with the house sparrows a minute later when they all took off. The Merlin photo ID wanted it to be a much larger bird (GH Owl, Canada Geese) and the ID by size/color didn't find anything useful. The feathers looked intact, not like it was molting.

Bad photo through a 2nd floor window with my iPhone:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xMRaThKHQMR3ramKA

Thanks

Betty

[Janine Hart-Hueber]

Looks like a white-breasted nuthatch to me!

Janine

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[Andrew Whitacre]

Yeah, agreed on nuthatch. It looks way grayer than it normally would; perhaps an effect of “decisions” made by the camera as it captured the photo. 

Andrew

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