Bird Table News

I hang three bird feeders from branches. In summer I carry an old jug full of bird seed out to the feeders and fill the feeders outside.

I heard a loud noise and saw a small shadow whizz by my left shoulder.

Looking up I saw a brightly coloured black and yellow bird.

It was a Great Tit. It perched for one monent on a branch just above my head. It then flitted around my head in a circle from branch to branch. It stayed perched on one branch for a minute.

I did not have my camera with me. The law of my garden says that if I have my camera with me nothing happens. If I don’t have my camera with me I see allsorts of things.

This Great Tit, brightly clothed in black and yellow, was so close to me. I stood and watched it.

I picked up my old jug full of seed and poured the seed into the two hanging seed feeders - I filled them to the brim with seed.

I walked away a little and watched the Great Tit as it chirrupped so loudly, landed on the feeder, poked it’s beak inside the feeder port and flew away to a nearby branch.

It’s still nearby now, It’s in the shade flitting from branch to feeder, from feeder to branch. Wonder if it’s got any young yet.

The early morning breeze, the greenery of the hedge and tree, the ice blue sky, the yellow and black of the bird, the song of the bird took me miles away from computers and technological problems. It took me to a world where survival is king and nature rules (with a little help from us birdfeders)

I have just been outside again and seen two Great Tits sat on nearby branches , singing , without a care in the world. Why should they have any cares or problems - I’m providing all the food they need to eat. costing me a fortune!!

A dove sits in the shade of a tree with a long piece of grass in its beak. A Busy day nest making.

Rooks hover nearby. A small flock of sparrows flits about. Further away blackbirds skurry about on the grass near the pond. Chaffinches wait in a queue on a branch waiting for a space on the feeders.

At the moment I’m fed up with computers and technology but outside in the real world a new cycle of life is here. Birds know the seasons. They are not immune from the seasons as we are sat at our computer desks.

A Great Tit.

Information about Great Tits

The Great Tit has a distinctive black stripe on its underside. It has white cheeks which contrast with its all-black head markings. It’s tail it bluey/grey.

The Great Tits - Feeding Great tits. Great tits love peanuts, seeds,

Great tits are not as agile as the other small Tits. They spend a lot of time feeding on or near the ground.

In summer as well as coming to bird feeders Great tits eats insects such as caterpillars and bugs, but also spiders and small snails.

Here is one kind of bird food that Great Tits like.  Why not buy some bird food today and feed the birds.

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