My Life With Luna

By chrisA

Coal Tit

I'm so pleased to see this little chap visit the bird feeders. At first I thought it was a Great Tit, but the size and colouring is different so a look in my RSPB Bird Book identified it as a Coal Tit.
Apparently it is one of Europe's smallest birds and is usually associated with conifers although it frequents gardens too. It finds tiny insects, spiders and their eggs in foliage, eats many seeds and nuts and visits feeders frequently, often dashing off with food to eat nearby. It hides much food in tufts of pine needles.
While I was watching, it took sunflower hearts and darted off to eat them in the Japonica which is next to the feeders.

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