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Birds - Bluetit Page 1
Image Taken on 26 Nov 2010
at 13:38 Image of day on 20 Jan 2011
No - not the bird above after landing but probably a different individual
(we have scores of tits each autumn) next day posing for a portrait.
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Image Taken on 26 Feb 2010
at 16:39 Image of day on 22 Mar 2010
Bluetits often feed on the peanut grit we leave out at the photo
sites, but rarely oblige with such a nice portrait.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2009
at 15:10 Image of day on 26 Nov 2009
The moved site is now properly adjusted and obtaining some nice
portraits of small birds. Here a bluetit perches on a
carefully positioned stone.
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Image Taken on 13 Oct 2008
at 17:41 Image of day on 02 Nov 2008
We haven't shown you bluetit for months, but they are now
back in prime plumage and regular visitors.
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Image Taken on 14 Jun 2008
at 11:34 Image of day on 28 Jun 2008
Baby Bluetits are so sweet. They have quickly learned
'peanut feeder technique'.
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Ref: 20080628_db1_20080614_1134_037 young bluetit(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Jan 2008
at 14:03 Image of day on 22 Feb 2008
Bluetits apparently had a poor breeding year, but we are
delightfully surrounded by these little blue and yellow jewels.
The Sparrowhawk is enjoying them as well.
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Image Taken on 02 Dec 2010
at 08:35 Image of day on 27 Jan 2011
15 minutes later the jackdaws have gone and smaller birds have arrived
for THEIR breakfast (4 species in genuine single frame).
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Ref: 20110127_d3b_20101202_0835_079_fb3 bluetit + great tit + great spotted woodpecker male + chaffinch male at feeder in falling snow(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Jan 2011
at 15:35 Image of day on 04 Mar 2011
A nice little montage of visitors to the hedge bottom over 20
minutes. The Tree Sparrow (2nd from left) has a leg ring off
which we could read a couple of digits - if we find out more we
will add it here.
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Ref: 20110304_d45_20110108_1535_127+1543_133+155_138_fb1 bluetit + tree sparrow with leg ring + robin + great tit (adjusted montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Feb 2008
at 13:11 Image of day on 07 Mar 2008
Bluetit about to jump off some dead-wood we hang the
peanut feeders on.
Good thing he doesn't know a tawny owl occasionally
hunts from the same perch (see archive for 21 Dec 2007)
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Ref: 20080307_d10_20080203_1311_017 bluetit about to jump off branch(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Feb 2008
at 16:21 Image of day on 20 Mar 2008
The sweet face of the bluetit, raising its wings, to launch to the sky.
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Ref: 20080320_d3b_20080221_1621_076 fb1 bluetit about to take off(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Jun 2008
at 13:07 Image of day on 14 Jun 2008
Bluetits are now being fed as fledgelings (left the nest) and
others still in the box (possibly from different boxes - at least 4
have bluetits in them).
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Ref: 20080614_dc1_20080605_1307_017 bluetit adult with crest raised in silver birch with insect (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Jan 2008
at 15:32 Image of day on 16 Feb 2008
Within 30 minutes our two most common Tits obliged with similar
poses, and we couldn't resist montaging them together to make
this fun composition.
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Ref: 20080216_d3b_20080118_1532_097_&_1505_087 fb1 bluetit and great tit both in flurry of wings (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Jun 2008
at 13:07 Image of day on 14 Jun 2008
Youngster on the left, wings aflutter - FEED ME! FEED ME! FEED ME!
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Ref: 20080614_dc1_20080605_1307_020 fledgling bluetit begging from parent in silver birch tree (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Jun 2008
at 09:07 Image of day on 12 Jun 2008
For an hour or so the Bluetit nest box in the back garden was
well enough lit for some images. Here one of the chicks has
clambered up to the hole to grab the incoming morsel.
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Ref: 20080612_da1_20080605_0907_005 bluetit chick at box hole begging food from adult(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 29 May 2011
at 12:48 Image of day on 02 Jul 2011
A baby Bluetit doing what it does best - begging for food!
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Ref: 20110702_df1_20110529_1248_119 bluetit chick demanding food(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Dec 2007
at 16:24 Image of day on 10 Jan 2008
Bluetits look almost luminous when photographed by flash. Colour
not fudged - honestly!
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Ref: 20080110_d3b_20071209_1624_071 fb1 bluetit clambering up log with wings spread(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Jun 2011
at 08:51 Image of day on 31 Jul 2011
For several days bluetits have been clambering around in the Ash tree on the
main pond island. We thought they were hunting insects, but the tree does a good
job of obscuring what is going on. Altogether too long spent trying to catch images
finally result in a single glorious minute where one bird did it all in reasonable view:-
Tear off a still green seed (known as a Key -
these become winged seeds), clamp it to a branch with a claw, rip it to bits
and eat the unripe seed.
Unfortunately these are the visible bits of TWO seeds being
'processed' so the frames are not in their natural order, but it
illustrates what was going on.
 clamping to branch with claw to tear them up 4+3+1+2 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20110731_dc1_20110620_0851_071-_034 bluetit collecting unripe ash seeds (keys) clamping to branch with claw to tear them up 4+3+1+2 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Feb 2010
at 12:18 Image of day on 07 Mar 2010
A couple of days later the bluetits were busy wrecking the buds
on an Ash tree. This one was leaping from twig to twig every few
seconds, and we were lucky to get even this marginal image of the
bird attacking the bud on the other side of the twig in the heavy
overcast light.
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Ref: 20100307_df1_20100207_1218_013 bluetit dashing around ash tree to eat buds(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jan 2008
at 10:07 Image of day on 26 Feb 2008
What are Tits eating up there in the birches? Answer - the unopened catkins.
One foot is holding an unopened catkin while the beak tip attacks the
hard surface.
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Ref: 20080226_d01_20080130_1007_036 bluetit eating silver birch unopened catkin (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Dec 2011
at 10:35 Image of day on 23 Jan 2012
Up in the branches this Bluetit is wheedling seeds from the Birches
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Ref: 20120123_df1_20111227_1035_130+133 bluetit feeding on birch tree seeds 5+6 of 7 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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