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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

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Blue and Great Tits feeding Great Spotted Woodpecker nestlings

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Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

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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

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Looking back

01 September 2004 Comments Other Yellow-browed Warbler on Great Saltee, Co. Wexford.ÂÂOn October 12th, 1953, a Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) was seen and trapped by John Weaving on Great Saltee, Co. Wexford. In the field the small size, prominent eyestripe and doub...

Yellow-browed Warblers in Britain and Ireland, 1968-85

01 March 1987 Comments Main paper The Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus is one of the most regular and numerous Siberian vagrants to visit western Europe, where almost all records are for the period September-December. According to Dementiev & Gladkov ...