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Blue tits and great tits

By Kate Bradbury on 16/05/2013 17:03:12

While many plants have been late to flourish this year, I’m pleased to report that the blue and great tits that forage in my garden every spring are bang on schedule.Regular readers of this blog will know that every year my tiny courtyard garden


The brimstone moth

By Richard Jones on 06/05/2009 15:16:07

Our first barbecue of the season was Sunday 3 May, so much pottering about in the garden sunshine. It's all happening out there now. Last week there were 13 newts in the pond, we couldn't move for holly blues and then the swifts were back. It


Garden birds and my Big Garden Birdwatch

By Kate Bradbury on 27/01/2011 16:01:59

wagtails visited during the coldest weather).In spring a pair of great tits and a blue tit used my garden to snack on peanuts while foraging for their young. They were all gone by July and my garden was, once again, Pigeon City. In October there were still


Building bird boxes

By Kate Bradbury on 14/12/2012 17:16:42

Santa.It all started when the delivery of a new drill and drill bits coincided with my having a bit of wood left over from a green roof I made for a friend. I knocked up two blue tit boxes in a flash, then another. Before I knew it I was scouring local


Big Garden Birdwatch 2009

By Adam Pasco on 26/01/2009 17:10:50

in particular diving in and out of soil beneath my feet as I fork over flowerbeds.January is the time I like to put up the bird nest boxes, or clean out old ones that were used last spring. I've already noticed a few blue tits around, exploring existing nesting


Cleaning out bird boxes

By Adam Pasco on 12/11/2012 15:38:00

Watching blue tits hopping in and out of one of my nest boxes at the weekend, I was reminded of another important job for this month. I need to open all the boxes around my garden and clear out the old nesting material.I know that one of my boxes


Garden birds and the Big Garden Birdwatch

By Kate Bradbury on 14/01/2010 18:07:47

. But the blue tits and great tits that I watch in the birch trees opposite just viewed my offerings with suspicion.On twelfth night, my partner and I took down our Christmas tree. It was still green and had most of its needles intact, so we moved it to our bare


Why are the birds ignoring their food?

By Kate Bradbury on 03/12/2010 15:29:13

of food, but what about the blue tits, great tits and other small birds? If only I could tell them how much high-energy food is waiting for them in my garden.No matter how hungry birds are, they'll only visit gardens in which they feel safe. A bird


The nuthatch

By Richard Jones on 02/03/2011 07:22:28

The bright Sunday morning sees me and nearly six-year-old scootering around Crystal Palace Park looking at dinosaur statues. We make a right pair — he clattering on the blue plastic three-wheeler, me skidding on the chrome micro. In order to avoid


Coal tits

By Richard Jones on 09/11/2011 07:52:26

great tit, two blue tits and a coal tit.Now I have to admit that I’m not really much of a bird-watcher, and it slowly dawns on me that I think this is the first time I have ever seen a coal tit out there. An oversight, I’m sure. It is exactly as I


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