Great Tit – batch #2!
It’s difficult to know if this fellow was here before. But anyway, in the minimum of time a new batch of chicks hatched out in the bird box. This picture is from early this morning.
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Ready to fledge – Great Tit update
So who do you think will go first? That one down there on the right! Hauling himself on top of the others Ready to try out those wings
Bird Update
It has been a busy few weeks for our great tit – finding more and more fine nesting material and tucking it into place. Making just the right shape. This pose though, seems to be more about arranging the content of the nest than its structure. Eventually, all is revealed. Eight eggs! And elsewhere in …
New Tit takes up residence!
As spring begins to take off a new resident bags his/her spot in our bird box. Hopefully this great tit will do better than our tenants in 2013. There seemed to be two clutches of eggs last year – eventually there were about 20 eggs in the nest at one time. Each clutch was abandoned …
Stupid Great Tit!
First thanks to Llendorin who corrected my assumption in ‘Blue Tit Ways’. Here’s more information. There are several differences between the blue tit and the great tit, but the most obvious even in black and white, is the white area above the eye in the blue tit. Great tits have a black head piece which …