coal tit periparus ater

Some blue in the sky today and much brghter. :-)

I have to go up to the woods to see these guys. It was in a mixed flock of Tits and Goldcrests.

My brother in law very kindly drove us up to the Red Squirrel hide at the David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre in Aberfoyle on New Year's Eve. It was raining and the light was very poor at first. Eventually the rain stopped and it brightened up a bit. I got condensation in my lens and my...

My wife spotted this little guy. A couple of quick shots and he was gone again. It was quite interesting because I've never seen A Coal Tit at Rstasjn before and I've never seen one reported. Haven't seen one since that brief visit either. Not that Coal Tits are uncommon in Sweden but still...

This Coal Tit is so wet after his bath that he looks like another species entirely. :-)

I had a great time in Norway. Didn't see many birds though and didn't take many photographs. And those I did take were mostly of a dragonfly and the landscape.

Not as wet as the Willow Warbler. In most of the pictures from Gotska Sandn the birds are completely dry. :-) Coal Tits were by far the commonest tits on the island.