willow tit

Willow tit Poecile montanus

willow tit

another one out of the archives, one of many thousands i`ve been looking at...

Can't visit the Botanical Garden without seeing a few of the "usual suspects"

Uh oh! It's way past midnight. I'll just post these three then get to bed. Will do my browsing after I get some sleep.

of a Willow Tit, then I'm moving on to other dates.

Like a guest at a smorgasboard spread, this Willow Tit has loaded up his "plate" and is headed back to the "table" to eat. The "table" would be one of his favorite branches, providing cover, a steady grip, and a hard surface against which to hammer open the seed.

judging by the pale patch on the wing, at any rate. It can be nigh impossible to tell the Willow Tits and Marsh Tits apart, except by their calls. And this one wasn't talking with his mouth full ;) Still, I'll take a chance on Willow Tit - partly because of the pale wing patch (although Marsh...

We finally got back to Ann's cabin, without another sighting of the Divers sadly, I found the Willow Tit still feeding. As I don't see these at home, thought I'd put another into my Gallery for you to see. Nice birds, aren't they. I've just a couple more pictures from this, my final day in...

Before I take you on the walk round the lake, here's a quite different pose of this gorgeous wee tit, showing his diagnostic pale wing panel and the pale spot on the bill. Actually there were so many flitting about there, I don't know if this was the same one, or a different guy. What I've...

... it's the first Willow Tit for my Gallery here. I've seen them before but not for some time sadly. We don't get them up here. We'd arrived in Hell, where Ann's husband used to live. They have a cabin up in the mountains, with regularly filled feeders and this was the first bird to show...

Always a few birds around the feeders here