Being a great
tit parent is therefore, extremely demanding, albeit that the young do at least fledge after about three weeks.
Busy time in fight to feed the fledglings
The researchers found the biggest problems occur in colder springs, when
tits start building their nests relatively late but the flycatchers still arrive early.
Fatal Shift
The British form of Willow
Tit occurs nowhere else in the world, so there's a lot at stake in trying to save them.
BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes
We can look at the example of the willow
tit. We are lucky to have around 10 per cent of the UK population in North Manchester and South Lancashire.
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Our three bearded
tits, comprising two males and a female, were first spotted by Brian Clasper in the reedbeds in an area known as the Long Drag.
GO WILDwith eric paylor
The rise in sightings of goldfinch, long-tailed
tit and coal
tit, along with chaffinches and greenfinches, goes to show that in the absence of cold weather they can survive the winter months in good numbers.
County results in RSPB's Big Birdwatch revealed..
Northumberland: house sparrow; starling; blackbird; blue
tit; chaffinch; woodpigeon; goldfinch; great
tit; collared dove; robin.
Now our little burrowers can borrow nesting chamber
More recently there was a downward trend in Big Garden Birdwatch sightings of the
tit species, thought to be linked to prolonged wet weather in the 2016 breeding season.
Take part in Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend
They always used to feed on the ground, or on bird tables, but they have learnt how to perch on seed and nut feeders, like sparrows and blue
tits. They went through an intermediate stage of hovering around the feeders first, something that blackbirds are now trying to do.
Massive birdwatch survey throws up a complicated picture
Other small garden birds saw numbers increase, including coal
tits, with sightings in gardens up by a quarter on 2015's count, and great
tits, which were up almost 15 per cent, the survey showed.
Birds flourish in mild winter, survey shows
Warmer weather leading up to the 2016 Big Garden Birdwatch in January helped boost numbers of long-tailed
tits by 44% on last year, bringing them into the top 10 most commonly spotted birds for the first time in seven years.
Warmer winter is a boost for smaller garden birds
To see Durham University's soon-to-be-famous Blue
Tits, please visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel7sAozGQM
How cute! Female Blue Tit tries to create a nest using only a few scraps of grass; As Blue Tit breeding season begins, Dr Stephen Willis from Durham University has set up a live stream camera inside a nesting box
But it is the tiny long-tailed
tit which is getting experts in a bit of a flap, with a huge increase in sightings making it one of the 10 most commonly seen birds in the county.
Sparrow in top spot but tiny bird flies up the chart
Boobies, Peckers, and
Tits: One Man's Naked Perspective
Boobies, Peckers, and Tits: One Man's Naked Perspective
A new study has found that long-tailed
tits may benefit from climate change.
Climate change is good news for one British bird