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gradders52

Well-known member

• Jul 4, 2009

• #1

Juvenile Blue Tit and...???? Sorry, mind is a blank and I should know this. Smaller than a blue tit and it's the white patch at the back of the head and the amount of yellow on the cheeks etc... Apologies for poor quality, very 'flitty', low light, under overhanging tree and rain! Many Thanks.
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Pete Mella

Getting there...

• Jul 4, 2009

• #2

gradders52 said:

Juvenile Blue Tit and...???? Sorry, mind is a blank and I should know this. Smaller than a blue tit and it's the white patch at the back of the head and the amount of yellow on the cheeks etc... Apologies for poor quality, very 'flitty', low light, under overhanging tree and rain! Many Thanks.
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Looks like a juv coal tit to me.

 

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birding maniac

Michael M

• Jul 4, 2009

• #3

The bird in all 4 pics is a Coal tit, classicaly very flitty, doesn't stay still. In the first two pics, then the bird on the left is a Blue tit

 

stevetb

Registered user

• Jul 4, 2009

• #4

Yeah, juv. coal tit. The nape patch is distinctive of the coal tit, as are the dark coloured wings.

 

gradders52

Well-known member

• Jul 4, 2009

• #5

THANKS guys. What threw me was the amount of 'yellow and green' in the coal tit... my reference (and previous sightings) shows them 'greyer and blacker', what did for me. Being a juvenile I guess makes the difference. Thought it had to be... but then one gets doubts. Many thanks.
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Quercus

homo sarkensis

• Jul 4, 2009

• #6

blue, coal and great tit youngsters are much yellower than the adults... but basically the same design as their parents!

The adults can look really grotty at this time of year too