Tit population (1 Viewer)

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jayhunter

Well-known member

• Sep 15, 2004

• #1

B Has any body else noticed the size of the "Tit" population this year has exploded, my garden is full of Blue, Great and Coal tits at the moment. They are using the feeders but are also foraging in the Honeysuckle, Broom, Birch and Fir, but what I have noticed for the first time this year is that the Blue tits have a fondness for my Fennel. There were up to five birds at a time on one frond bending down the Umbels and knoshing the fennel seeds.

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Sep 16, 2004

• #2

Hi Bob, how you doing?

Yep, I also commented on this a while back, there have been loads of them around this year.

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=20195

Regards

 

Richard D

what was that...

Supporter

• Sep 16, 2004

• #3

I've noticed a lot of long-tailed around my area, and this morning I almost missed my train after I got transfixed watching half a dozen blue tits playing in a tree on the way to work |=)|

 

pauco

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• Sep 16, 2004

• #4

You lucky people, up to now 3 blue tits-2 great tits-2coal tits. :-C
will swap somebody for some house sparrows todays count 50+
bert.

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Sep 16, 2004

• #5

bert said:

You lucky people, up to now 3 blue tits-2 great tits-2coal tits. :-C
will swap somebody for some house sparrows todays count 50+
bert.

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ahh...bert. The grass is always greener....

 

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Rob Williams

Well-known member

• Sep 16, 2004

• #6

Helen,

Yesterday lunchtime my garden was fairly buzzing with tits of all descriptions. I was trying hard to count them and could only manage 5 bluetits, 4 great tits, 2 coal tits and a long-tailed tit, but I know for sure there were more of them than that. Everywhere I looked I could see birds flitting around. In the middle of that my juvenile willow warbler reappeared. Up until a few days ago I had never seen one, now I've seen a juvenile twice and an adult once.

This was the first year that we had great tits successfully nest in our bird box, and blue tits nested in the next door garden

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Sep 16, 2004

• #7

any chance they could be this year's birds? Numbers may drop off soon as they are 'weeded' out in the lottery of life...?

 

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jayhunter

Well-known member

• Sep 16, 2004

• #8

Tim, I had thought that a large number were juveniles, just hope we don't have too hard a winter up here in the Peaks.