Ilya Maclean
charlatan
Finding Lesser Spots
A lot of people seem to dip this species, but I seem to have a reasonable success (I've seen 7 in Norfolk in the last year or so). I'm not trying to teach grannies to suck eggs here, and I stand to be corrected, but I wonder if part of the reason people dip them, is they expect them to be behaving like great spots (i.e. feeding on thicker dead trunks). Often when I've seen them, they're out on or even at the end of thin branches, feeding much more like the tits spp with which they often associate in winter
A lot of people seem to dip this species, but I seem to have a reasonable success (I've seen 7 in Norfolk in the last year or so). I'm not trying to teach grannies to suck eggs here, and I stand to be corrected, but I wonder if part of the reason people dip them, is they expect them to be behaving like great spots (i.e. feeding on thicker dead trunks). Often when I've seen them, they're out on or even at the end of thin branches, feeding much more like the tits spp with which they often associate in winter
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