Gratuitous Tit Shots

As if I could resist this entirely factual title.


For all of you coming in off goggle, I would apologise, but come on.....

o:)

So, my skygarden regularly attracts at least two [as in seen in at once] each of Blue, Coal, and Great Tits. The two House Sparrows and at least two Robins and four Blackbirds are also in daily. Sometimes violence occurs, but usually only of the token 'threat posture makes submissive bird flee' nature.

All of the above are well able to cling onto the fat feeder cage, with all but the Blackbirds able to tuck into the filled coconut also [that's the one on the feeder pole, the other in the Hawthorn is open to all and sundry - the sundry being mostly Magpies..]. Greenfinches are less often seen, narfing sunflowers seeds, and a couple have realised there are a tasty variety in the mix feeder, too. The Magpies can attack the fat feeder, but only if the pole is in the right position for them to make an approach flight. If the Nuthatches and GSWs are still coming in, they're being very sneaky, and the Goldfinch flock still seems to be ignoring me, despite my now toting Niger and other such goodies with the sunflower hearts in the mix feeder.. :(

Of note, and an indicator of something, is the utter lack of Blackcap. You will recall in past years how evident they tend to be!


Right, a 'few' shots;

I love Blue Tits

Blue Tits love fat

They're wonderful little birds

Flight feathers and fluff

Hmm, is that a brood patch?

Taken some time later, but looks like the same bird

Eyeing up the peanuts

At last, proof this isn't the ringed bird

Appearing very white headed from this angle

I did use the word 'gratuitous' up there, you can see now that I wasn't kidding! :)

Not just Blue Tits, though the Coals are faster than you'd credit, and the Greats invariably hide!

Coal Tit

[through sunny window]

Posing in my Lazarus Spruce*

Great Tits always hide..

.. or at least pose inconveniently.

Note the different nape pattern to Blue Tit, there; teeny grey blob versus the extensive grey-verging-white of Blue.

And to give a non-tit;

House Sparrow

Male and female still regular, I hope they're breeding somewhere nearby [though not in a Swift nest site!]


Right, pics be done.

Be Seeing You...

[[*My Blue Spruce, which suffered 100% needle loss after an horrific aphid attack, has sprouted forth green shoots in defiance of all tiny virus-carrying bar stewards. I have that precious gift of hope that maybe it might just survive. Maybe.]]