Oak Titmouse

15 cm (6") Common. Western United States. This species lives year-round on the Pacific slope. It prefers open woodlands of warm, dry oak and oak-pine at low to mid-elevations. Attracted to feeders with suet, peanut butter and sunflower seeds.

A small, brown-tinged gray bird with small tuft or crest. The face is plain, and the undersides are a lighter gray. Sexes are similar.

Juniper Titmouse appears almost identical, but differ in voice as well as range.

Song: series of repeated whistled notes of three to seven syllables, with first syllable higher in pitch than the following one. The call is a scratchy tsicka-dee-dee.

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