willow tit

Tree Sparrow & Willow Tit are enjoying their bath and are both puzzled by a neighbour

I have been trying to get a decent shot of one of these guys for ages.They seem to be always on the move. I caught this one justbefore i was about to leave.

The Willow Tit is well camouflaged against the decaying birch trunk. When I realized the bird was digging out a hole in the trunk, I backed off and left it to it's housing efforts. Wonder if evulotion has made the bird colours go so well with it's choice of nesting environment...? Had the...

Sorry about the quality of this but it was purely a grab/record shot and my first of this bird.

I can never tell them apart! This one was performing acrobatics to get at grubs along these branches.

I always thought that the black-and-white head of the Willow looks almost exactly like the eastern symbol for eternal change "Tao". And in the forest this bird is in the center of the universe, as the bravest feathered creature around. Looks like he have had a bath. The short DOF of...

I got the impression it looked down on me, as if I belonged to an inferior species. And when it comes to the ability to survive in the forest by your own devices, it is certainly true...

The fact that the big guy spreads nuts on the ground, instead of being dangerous, is "baking his nudle", it seems :smile:

I have thrown away the idea that bird behaviour follows any kind of "human logic". The willows came as close as half a meter, when I was putting out seeds and nuts on the ground - thus seeing from where this food source comes. I moved myself almost 10 meters away and put up my gear - laying down...

With the sound of willow tits in this case.

Whenever I went for a walk in any of the nearby forests, I managed to run in to some Willows. Usually unafraid at first, but when they realize this human takes an interest in them, they may disappear. Willows are exceptional good at hiding. I can hear them in a nearby bush, but not see them, and...

The alpine forests were full of contrasts - light and dark, plain and ornamented. Here's a tit sitting just outside a nice pool of warming light!

From my yesterdays free hour. Sun didnt give any beams to that spot at that hour.. It was just like I expected. I had a week free from work. I had to do the floor seeing every day how the sun rises and shines brightly outside. Today was the first day without floor jobs. There was no sun, just a...

Very unusual for this bird to sit still long enough for a couple of shots - enjoying the sunshine perhaps. Newly fallen snow made the landscape bright and joyful.

Seemed to favour scampering along the ground under the feeders for seeds, before zipping off into the undergrowth.

Foraging

Never seen a softer bird than the winter willow. They fall down from tree branches to the ground slowly like large snowflakes. But when the sparrow hawk strikes with lightning speed, they are quick enough to escape into nearest spruce. This is for Marian - the great encourager :smile:

Like these little characters, don't linger about in any one spot for too long, shy i guess :)