Sunday, 8 December 2013

Long-tailed tits

These little balls of pinky-white fluff with long dark tails are constantly on the move in small family groups.
 
photo:    London Bird Club

You may not see them at first but you may hear their high-pitched squeaks "dibbedy-dee"   "dibbedy-dee", which they use to keep together.
 
They have tiny beaks, bushy black eyebrows and 'peppercorn eyes'.
 
photo:  Roger Wyatt, Oxfordshire Bird Log
 
We know that they nest at Filnore Woods because we found a nest in the brambles.  See the post for 29th March 2012.

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