Hides and garden birds
In Italy we visit Lago di Alviano and enjoy their small birds’ hide. The hide is large and L-shaped, there’s furniture in …
Coal Tit at Crime Lake
I can hear a Coal Tit squeaking in the tree above. I’d love to get a photograph of it. Then I spot …
The Third Ladybird Book of British Birds – #4 The Coal Tit
A pair of Coal Tits had the largest number of bird fleas ever reported from a single nest: that’s 5,754 fleas.
Ancient names: Parus capite nigro: vertice albo, dorso cinereo, pectore albo
Coal Tit is such a nice, short, simple name. It’s also in English, and despite Britain’s best efforts in the past, not …
A Coal Tit record breaker
Coal Tits are record breakers. Not for their size, their distribution or their number of eggs. It’s because a pair of Coal …
Crime Lake at Daisy Nook
I’m at Crime Lake. Apparently no crime was committed here, but having seen the six lanes of motorway built through beautiful countryside, …