The camouflage this bird has is amazing!
Finally recovered enough from COVID to get out into the woods again and go birding on our farm here in East Tennessee (Greene County).
My 11-year-old son took these photos of a Brown Creeper (Certhia americana).
From Wikipedia:
Also known as the American treecreeper, it is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.
Adults are brown on the upper parts with light spotting, resembling a piece of tree bark, with white underparts. They have a long thin bill with a slight downward curve and a long stiff tail used for support as the bird creeps upwards.
They forage on tree trunks and branches, typically spiraling upwards from the bottom of a tree trunk, and then flying down to the bottom of another tree. They creep slowly with their body flattened against the bark, probing with their beak for insects. They will rarely feed on the ground. They mainly eat small arthropods found in the bark, but sometimes they will eat seeds in winter.
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