Treecreepers are a species that I do not get the chance to photograph very often so when I heard one singing in a wood today, I lingered for a while in the hope that I would be able to grab a picture or two. This proved to be the case and after a lot of patience, I managed my best ever photographs of this species. Treecreepers have a very interesting beak, long, curved and finely pointed which means that they can extract food from deep crevices and cracks beneath bark and moss on tree trunks. Their plumage is interesting as well, it's cryptic, that means it's camouflaged and blends in perfectly with tree bark. They also have an interesting tail which is heavily forked. But if you look at the tails of woodpeckers, you can see that there are similarities. The tail is used to support the bird by stiffly pressing up against the bark as it ascends the tree. They also have a habit of working up a tree from the bottom to the top and never climb down the trunk, unlike Nuthatches for example that will do that.  Just look at their sharp long claws that will help it to hang on while it creeps up the tree.  The claws are also interesting because the species of Treecreeper here in the UK is different than continental birds. The species there is the Short Toed Treecreeper.  You might be interested to know that the Treecreepers on the Chanel Island of Jersey are  the Short toed Treecreeper,  where there are  thought to be around 500 pairs there.