Great tit family

For the last few days the large tree that over hangs the end of our garden has been visited by another great tit family. The young birds tend to stay in the more dense outer branches so looking up through the tree it is difficult to see them. Occasionally they will flit across the central branches looking a bit like a ghost as they stand out against the darker background. No pictures unfortunately because of the dense branches and problems of focusing quickly enough in the gloom.

The adults can frequently be heard calling to the chicks and occasionally flying through the central branches with caterpillar in its mouth calling to the fledglings.

Great tits, snails and damselflies

Raining hard today. An adult great tit was foraging in the climbing plants on the shed opposite the kitchen window. Before I could get my camera the great tit flew up into the tree. It sounded like the adult bird feeding its young.


Lots of slugs and snails about. This one was having a piggy back. I'm sure their must be some chinese moral there somewhere!


There were several damselflies hanging from the underside of the yellow flag leaves, sheltering from the rain.