Tag Archives: Long-tailed tit

Birds, Mammal

Birds in the garden 13th February 2018

1 Comment

1. Nuthatch and Great spotted woodpecker atop a spruce tree

Video Player

2. My handsome grey red squirrel disappears up the tree with a grunt

Video Player

3. I had a  rodent visitor in the night on the balcony on the second floor outside my bedroom…it had climbed up through the Clematis

Video Player

4. Redpolls with several others

Video Player

5. Long-tailed tits

Video Player

6. Bully Robin!

Video Player

 

Birds

Mating long-tailed tits?

Leave a comment
Another first for the garden today, long-tailed tits (stjertmeis) displaying and perhtaps also mating? What do you think? Isn’t it a bit early?
Another first for the garden today, long-tailed tits (stjertmeis) displaying and perhaps also mating? What do you think? Isn’t it a bit early? I may also have seen the hovering courtship display, thinking first the bird was fly catching….

 

Video Player
Birds

Tail Tits

Leave a comment

Long-tailed tits (stjertmeis, meaning literally Tail Tits in Norwegian) forage on natural food far and wide in winter here and I see them only once a year…it’s always a joy to meet them, particularly when I see them from my home office desk! However, they had moved on in a few minutes!

Video Player
Birds

Long-tailed tits

Leave a comment
I see long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) (Norw: stjertmeis) in the garden usually only once each winter. Unlike most tits, they wander during the winter…and a small group of 8 birds passed through the garden today. I usually “spot” them when I hear their characteristic call.  I was planting garlic in the garden and rushed inside for my camera! I was surprised to see them foraging on the ground under the bird feeder. I can’t recall seeing them taking food from my feeder before, nor seen them on the ground. However, they had gone again after about 15 minutes. It’s the white-headed rase (ssp. caudatus) we have here!
Long-tailed tits was one of the few birds I recognised in Japan in the spring!
P1680692
I was pleased with the pictures despite it being very dark!
P1680690