Search

Female Great Tit singing while male removed for ringing

01 December 2023 Comments Notes On 31st January 2019, I was catching birds for ringing using a 6-m mist net in a suburban garden in Liverpool, Lancashire & North Merseyside. The catch rate was low, with just one or two birds being caught in the net at any given time. At one point...

Removal of nest material from a Great Tit nest in a nestbox

01 February 2022 Comments Notes ...

Blue and Great Tits feeding Great Spotted Woodpecker nestlings

01 December 2021 Comments Notes ...

Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

01 August 2021 Comments Notes ...

Hybrid Great Tit x Blue Tit

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 2nd February 2019, CE was mist-netting at a garden feeder near Hexham, in Northumberland, at a site where he has trapped in excess of 20,000 Great Tits Parus major and Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus (approximate ratio 1:2) since 1985. A...

Carrion Crows killing juvenile Black-headed Gull

01 April 2020 Comments Notes ...

Blue Tit feeding a Great Tit brood

01 March 2020 Comments Notes ...

Monthly marathon

01 May 2006 Comments Other ...

Notes

01 September 2001 Comments Notes It is well known that a staple component in the diet of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus is social wasps (Vespidae), in particular their pupae and larvae... ...

Notes

01 March 2000 Comments Notes At 08.51 GMT on 19th October 1995, near Keyhaven, Hampshire, I noticed a Great Skua Catharacta skua in fierce pursuit of a Little Egret Egretta garzetta about 1 km away over nearby saltmarsh. The egret was soon seized by the left wing and tumbled into ...