Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus)




Unlike it's cousin, the great tit, the blue tit seems happier away from its natural woodland habitat and is more eclectic in its taste, happy with seed, peanuts, fat balls and so on as well as keen on cleaning up the aphids from the roses. The blue tit stands at number 2 in the RSPB Garden Birdwatch top 20 and you have blue tits in your garden you probably have them all year, not just in winter.

Blue tits are commonly encountered but are fairly dull, have no real song, they are just ordinary, but they have one thing on their side, they are really cute!

Apart from the robin perhaps, I suspect the blue tit has done more to further the cause of birds with the general public than any other. Their readiness to make a home in a nest box almost anywhere makes them particularly popular.

Quite often people can think they have a resident three or four birds in their garden in winter and yet, in reality, they have a constant stream of different birds popping in. Ringing in gardens has revealed some quite interesting facts about actual number as against perceived numbers.

Common they may be but they really are lovely little characters and always entertaining on the garden nut bag.

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