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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phil Owen" data-source="post: 1348185" data-attributes="member: 31886">The Coal Tit has reappeared again and although I couldn't see any food storing, it certainly seemed to make much speedier visits to the feeder than the Blue and Great Tits.I was amazed to also see a male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in my next door neighbours tree!!They have been seen about five miles away but I live near a school with a playing field and there are only a few scattered trees around our house with no wooded area.I just wondered if the Lesser had perhaps joined a Tit flock because of the cold weather we have had??On this subject, how far do they normally roam and are the flocks fairly loose as I didn't see any Long Tailed Tits about however they could have been in one of the other gardens on the road.</blockquote>