What kind of crazy forum is this? I ask a perfectly reasonable question and all I get is a bunch of smart cracking jokers who have no respect for birding or any knowledge of it either! If you knew the thrill of making your way across a damp, dewy field at first light of dawn, picking your way through the burdocks and long grass, adjusting the focus on your high-powered telescope and zeroing in on the rare form of a Parsimonious Nuthatch perched momentarily on a deciduous tree limb 500 feet away...you would know the bliss that I experience every time I go birding. You are philistines. I am disappointed and vexed. If you don't have anything useful to say, just go away. I have been to sixteen internet forums trying to locate someone who has seen a Parsimonious Nuthatch (north of the Mason-Dixon line) and on no other forums have I received such useless comments and harassment as here!

Carol, it is pronounced: "nut-hatch" not "nu-thatch" (good grief!)