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Birds - Great Tit Page 7

Image Taken on 06 Jun 2017 at 12:35 Image of day on 30 Jul 2017

Young birds are being fed by their parents all over the site, mostly hidden from us inside bushes and tree. But here a couple of juvenile Great Tits are being introduced to the delights of the peanut feeder by an attentive parent of the right. This idyll was interrupted by the arrival of a Grey Squirrel.

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Image Taken on 28 May 2010 at 13:57 Image of day on 01 Jul 2010

Here the parents met at the hole. The bird outside has moved to it's right to let its partner fly out.

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Image Taken on 05 Jan 2013 at 15:30 Image of day on 08 Feb 2013

Great tits are wonderfully marked when you have a close look.

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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2022 at 18:40 Image of day on 04 Oct 2022

An immaculate Great Tit stops for a moment on the edge of the stone.

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Image Taken on 21 Nov 2013 at 16:01 Image of day on 15 Jan 2014

A Great Tit Poised on the edge of the stone providing a good view of the claws.

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Image Taken on 11 Dec 2016 at 09:23 Image of day on 17 Jan 2017

The Straw bales abandoned a few years ago outside our border have started to collapse, but this doesn't bother the birds that probe it for food. It must be crawling with insects!

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Image Taken on 04 Feb 2011 at 15:59 Image of day on 21 Mar 2011

Perky little Great Tit delicately selects a fragment of a corn grain.

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Image Taken on 10 Jan 2008 at 15:39 Image of day on 08 Feb 2008

Great tit gives us a look at almost hair like yellow filament feathers under the wing.

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Image Taken on 18 Mar 2023 at 09:21 Image of day on 23 Apr 2023

A Great Tit sings from one of the hundred or so young Lombardy Poplars along the farm road. For once we were close enough for some of his song to just make it through our now 'cloth ears'.
The bird didn't move along the twig - its just a pleasant montage.

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Image Taken on 06 Mar 2010 at 16:01 Image of day on 12 Apr 2010

The Viburnum flowers are now withering, but this great tit looks like it is about to attack the fresh leaf buds.

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Image Taken on 13 Oct 2018 at 17:20 Image of day on 06 Dec 2018

An elegant Great Tit poses on a convenient Fir cone

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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2011 at 19:04 Image of day on 23 Sep 2011

Its not every Great Tit that tries strawberry - it had been untouched for an hour (including other Great Tits) before this one had a go - it had gone next frame.

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Image Taken on 17 Apr 2006 at 18:08 Image of day on 28 Apr 2006

A great tit taking off from the relocated photo site.

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Image Taken on 25 Oct 2007 at 16:53 Image of day on 27 Nov 2007

A flurry of wings as this Great Tit (all things being relative) launches itself into the grey afternoon sky.

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Image Taken on 24 Oct 2023 at 12:12 Image of day on 05 Dec 2023

Most likely the same Great Tit visits the hedge bottom twice in 20 minutes.

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Image Taken on 16 Dec 2013 at 14:58 Image of day on 01 Feb 2014

The Great Tits had a good breeding season.
(We are sure the Sparrowhawk will be pleased as well)

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Image Taken on 22 Dec 2013 at 15:32 Image of day on 08 Feb 2014

Half an hour later, the chaffinch had gone and a Great Tit found this corn grain - a decent reward for turning up at the right time!

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Image Taken on 10 Mar 2007 at 16:26 Image of day on 29 Mar 2007

Corn is the favourite of the tits.

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Image Taken on 11 Jan 2012 at 15:49 Image of day on 06 Feb 2012

This Great Tit has found a dark seed of some kind amongst the corn we put out for the wildlife.

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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2020 at 13:50 Image of day on 29 Nov 2020

Great Tits are only a little larger than Blue Tits. We normally think of both species as having matt feathers, but this Great Tit shows a lovely glossy head - could it just be soaked?

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