What's the difference between
a blue tit and a nuthatch?

What's the difference between nuthatches and blue tits?

• Nuthatches and blue tits are both common garden and bird feeder visitors but can be mistaken for each other.
  
  
• Both birds can be similar in size, with nuthatches being only slightly larger. Both are primarily blue and have dark eye stripes.
  
  
• Nuthatches have orange/red chests and bellies while blue tits have very yellow bellies.
  
  
• Blue tits have white foreheads.
  
  
• Nuthatches have longer, thinner beaks.
  
  
• Nuthatches often eat upside down on feeders. Blue tits generally eat the right way up.