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Birds - Other tits Page 3
Image Taken on 19 Jan 2022
at 10:12 Image of day on 19 Feb 2022
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Image Taken on 20 May 2016
at 12:43 Image of day on 30 Jun 2016
Long-tailed Tits are one of our favourite birds.
Here a little 'wash and brush up' outside the living room window.
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Image Taken on 26 Mar 2012
at 09:42 Image of day on 23 Apr 2012
Long-tailed tits are very nervous birds and its a challenge to photograph
them when we are 'out and about', as here.
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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2013
at 12:42 Image of day on 05 May 2013
Long-tailed tits are appearing at all the peanut feeders and
generally around the site in larger numbers than previous years.
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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2008
at 10:10 Image of day on 14 Apr 2008
Looks like we might be lucky enough to have long-tail Tits not
only beautifying our patch, but breeding as well.
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Image Taken on 06 May 2011
at 11:24 Image of day on 08 Jun 2011
The Long-tailed tits continue to catch tiny caterpillars and
'show them to us' outside the living room window. This one looks
like it has just spotted the camera. We have no idea where the
nest is.
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Image Taken on 03 May 2011
at 08:19 Image of day on 02 Jun 2011
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Image Taken on 23 Mar 2014
at 12:18 Image of day on 20 May 2014
From inside the conservatory we grabbed this image of a Long-tail Tit
gathering building material for the nest. It had trouble controlling its
flight with such a large aerodynamic disturbance.
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Image Taken on 20 May 2020
at 08:53 Image of day on 17 Jun 2020
This slightly scruffy bird appears to be a young Long-tailed Tit calling for food.
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Image Taken on 20 May 2020
at 08:54 Image of day on 17 Jun 2020
The young Long-tailed tit flew up to an 11kV cable, which seems to dwarf it.
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Image Taken on 05 Jan 2020
at 10:08 Image of day on 03 Feb 2020
Long-tailed Tits are nervous birds we get to see only intermittently.
Here are 4 inside, and one on the top of a peanut feeder that is Squirrel-resistant
so long as we remember to fit the clip and cable-tie to hold on the top!
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2019
at 15:33 Image of day on 06 Mar 2019
Spotting some Long-tail Tits on the peanut feeder outside the Window, all stop
for a bit of bird watching of these lovely little birds flitting between a
bramble infested Buddleia and this feeder. Here are 8 of these birds crammed
into the squirrel proof cage.
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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2022
at 09:45 Image of day on 19 Feb 2022
The Long-tailed Tits have at last started using the Kitchen peanut feeder
where no direct sunlight (as opposed to sun or bright sky flaring the camera)
provides opportunities for some pics. There seem to be 6 birds in this little
group, taking turns in the feeder - here are 4 of them.
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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2018
at 09:10 Image of day on 06 Mar 2018
Outside the 'study' window we were charmed to catch 5 Long-tailed Tits all
crammed into this one caged peanut feeder. Beautiful and subtle birds.
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Image Taken on 24 Jan 2023
at 13:42 Image of day on 17 Feb 2023
A few sightings of Long-tailed Tits in the trees are very difficult to
photograph here - one sight of the human and they magically 'vanish'. But they
can't see us in the Kitchen with the light turned off, so we get a chance at a
photo or two in the shade of the house. Here are two Long-tailed Tits and one
(blurred) Blue Tit at the peanut feeder. Long-tailed Tits understand Peanut
feeders but never stay more than a minute or two.
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Image Taken on 25 Jan 2025
at 15:37 Image of day on 07 Mar 2025
Our Skittish Long-tailed Tit family make a bee-line for the peanut feeders but
never stay very long. Here the two were both inside the feeder, while the bird
on the screw thread of the G-Cramp is from a frame seconds later still awaiting
their turn on the nuts.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2024
at 17:19 Image of day on 27 Nov 2024
Another of occasional sightings of Long-tailed tits was through the living room window.
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Image Taken on 20 Oct 2024
at 09:07 Image of day on 27 Nov 2024
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Image Taken on 21 Feb 2023
at 10:37 Image of day on 24 Mar 2023
Outside the study window Long-tailed Tits visited the peanut feeder in relays,
stopping in this tangle of bramble and other hedging plants to wait their turn.
This montage over about 10 minutes is probably different individuals.
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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2009
at 13:20 Image of day on 28 Dec 2009
One visited the tree stump some 70m away for a decent portrait.
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