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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...

Blue Tit feeding a Great Tit brood

01 March 2020 Comments Notes ...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...

Seventy-Five years ago

01 July 1987 Comments Other 'LITTLE OWLS BREEDING IN ESSEX. THE first I heard of the Little Owl (Athene n. noctua) in the neighbourhood of Felsted, was from Mr. Hughes-Hughes, of Leez Priory, who had been brought a specimen for identification at the end of 1909 by the bailiff on ...