long tailed tit

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One of my favourite birds

One from my visit to Ken's last week. It's not hard to see why these are so popular, they are just so adorable.

Another from my trip to Ken's on Thursday.

Caught this little guy peeping out of my Flame Bush.

They are becoming more common but I don't care I love them.

Long Tailed Tit, taken in my garden.

close up, taken in the garden

Been trawling the archives again!

Visited Ken's with Mike from Ebw back in March and got some great images, which i transfered to a new external hard drive. This drive then became corrupted so i couldn't do a thing with the images. After hours of trying a work colleague recovered all the images for me,top man! Anyway this was...

suddenly appeared out of the leaves, managed only one close up and the bird was gone...

Taken earlier in the year after we'd had a covering of snow. f8 1/60sec iso320

Came pretty close to us and put on a show - presumably trying to distract us from the 2 fledglings under bushes a couple of metres away.

Not often i see these in the forest. A couple were building a nest 20m up in a birch,sometimes they came down to get some lichen off the trunks to use as decoration. They truely worked as a team,flying back and forth to the nest without break. Notice the white head of our subspecies.

Last post for a week or so as i'm off to Lesvos with Jamie [Scottishdude] tomorrow.

One from a trip to Cannock back in February.Hoping to get out and get some new material next week.

Birds in the garden

One from Kens place a few weeks back.

I think this one has a dodgy foot! by the look of it.