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Big news from the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch survey results just out: the long-tailed tit has made it, for the first time in the survey's 30-year history, into the top 10. I hardly ever saw these gregarious little birds until I moved to East Dulwich

it was busying itself looking for insects on the trees outside the building, i definately had a birds eye view being on the first floor just right to see the tree tops. It brightened up my day thats for sure. I don't think I have ever seen long-tailed tits in my

. It was with a big gang of long-tailed tits that darted one by one between the shrubs with a little “deet deet deet”. I love long-tailed tits, and stood watching them for a while, when these tiny mouse-sized birds appeared. Their behaviour, shape and size were so

in the garden. I just love the birds and stand for ages watching them from my kitchen window. Yes as above I have the pleasure of blue tits, great tits and coal tits but also long tailed tits so a very nice colletion of Tits. The birds this year have been slow

increasing year on year: great spotted woodpecker up 141 per cent since 1995, blue tit up 7 per cent, great tit 46 per cent, coal tit 17 per cent, long-tailed tit 27 per cent, nuthatch 80 per cent, song thrush 13 per cent, and blackbird 23 per cent. But it

in Jan/Feb, and the Long-Tailed Tits which arrive in a gang and work over it in search of aphids and the like for a good 10 minutes at a time. I also secretly enjoy the on-going competition with the squirrels to see who can collect the most Cobnuts

seen a goldcrest in our garden ,always exciting to see. Acouple of weeks ago had 20 long tailed tits flitting in and out of the shrubs. Here in Bristol it has been freezing, but still plenty of birds. I live on the edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire

the feathered visitors to my garden. These had to be birds actually landing in my garden and not just flying over. And no cheating! Although I saw long-tailed tits in my garden last week, but not during my hour, I could NOT record them. Neither did the song

've underplanted it. I've also put in a Clematis I bought at the Harrogate Flower Show - Clematis koreana Broughton Bride - so that it will twine through the branches. Very pleased with the result, so once again, me, Hazel and the Long-tailed Tits say thanks  That

I had a bit of a disappointing count this year - in the days leading up to it, I'd seen a pair of long-tailed tits, a pair of greenfinches, a house sparrow and lots of collared doves, but none of them turned up during my hour, plus I only saw 1 each