great tit

So I do take lots of pics of birds at that rather ugly feeder. But I also try to capture them in more photogenic settings nearby, such as when the stop at this bamboo pole to wait their turn, or when they use the reindeer antlers on the wall as anvils to hammer open their seeds, or when the land...

.... don't you think!!! I'd moved on to the feeder area, which wasn't really as busy as I'd hope. However, was quite pleased to see this guy, as I don't (or very rarely) get them at home. Nice isn't he, don't you think?

The only other bird I saw on the river walk that day was this Great Tit. Not co-operating, but the other pictures were rather worse. Hope you approve of this for a Saturday Fun effort.

The campus has two feeder areas. One is near the building wall two stories below my office window, probably hung by whoever has the office alongside there. It's not easily accessible to me (unless I want to hang dangerously out the window :eek!:). The other is in the abandoned and now overgrown...

Cinciallegra - Parus major - Great tit

Have a great weekend y'all.

I gather that, besides visiting feeders, a lot of the birds that stay the winter in Norway eat spiders that time of year. There are pretty much no insects available (unless the bird is able to dig into snowed-over anthills or drill its way in to bark beetle larvae deep in trees), but there are...

Standing in rather a risky position for this shot ;) ... but I couldn't help trying for a shot of how this Great Tit had bundled up some pine needles to make a perch.

This little fella must have had a tough morning based on his hair-do :)

Courtship feeding

That was my very first thought on opening this picture... looks like the Long-tailed Tit had given the Great Tit a knock-out blow before fleeing.. and there's the Blue Tit desperately trying to keep out of trouble. Can't remember getting these three in a frame before either.

The Great Tit obviously decided the Blue Tit was taking too long at the feeder and decided to take her place on the other side. It almost seems that they can't see each other, doesn't it LOL.

Have a great weekend y'all.

I moved down to see what what happening at the feeding station. I was a bit surprised to see that it had all been moved, due to the dangerous condition of some of the trees in the original site. A Great Tit patiently waiting her turn while the Blue Tit tucks in. I didn't even know she was in...

Of course, the corvids always do find a way to get at those tit treats eventually. This time it was pretty easy - just stand on a branch below and stretch. Another year they worked out how to haul the coconut shell up by its string and wedge it cup side up into a fork in the branch above. Well...

Another doughnut leftover: I use the leftover frying fat to make winter bird treats. I punch a hole in the bottoms of coconut halves, cut-down milk cartons, small yoghurt containers and/or the like. I put a string through that hole, fastening it with a good fat knot on the inside. Then I do my...

Great tit

Not the bird, but those green tips, proving that even in the depths of Winter, Spring is getting ready.

Strange ... these guys are always about, not all that shy, and not as hyperactive as Blue Tits, and yet ... so hard to get a good sharp shot of one. Right, Delia?

This Great tit spent a good bit of time on this tree. I was in the middle of a wobbly suspension bridge crossing the river Esk, Trying to stop myself from falling in. Had the big lens 250-600 and tripod too:)