Oak Titmouse
Oak Titmouse: Medium-sized titmouse with pale, brown-tinged gray upperparts and paler face and underparts. The bill is small and black, and legs and feet are gray. Weak, fluttering flight. A recently formed species, and along with the Juniper Titmouse, was known as the Plain Titmouse until 1996.
● Song:
"see-dee-dee", "chick-a-dee-dee"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Oak Titmouse: Eats a variety of seeds, including acorns, and insects, which it gleans from trunks, branches, and foliage. May cling beneath branches or cones to pick off food; holds large seeds between its feet and pounds them open with jackhammer-like raps with its bill.
● Breeding & nesting:
Oak Titmouse: Six to eight white eggs, sometimes with red brown spots, are laid in a tree cavity, fence-post hole, or crevice in an old building, stuffed with grass, fur, and some feathers. Incubation ranges from 14 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Oak Titmouse: Juniper Titmouse is slightly larger, paler gray overall, and has a different voice.