About the Blue Tit
Sometimes confused with its cousin the Great Tit, the Blue Tit has a small rounded head and short stocky neck, with a distinctive black eye stripe and small blue skullcap. It has bright yellow underparts with a narrow grey/black stripe on the centre of the belly.
The female is much the same as the male but juveniles have a much duller colour with a yellowy-green replacing the usual blue areas.
They have adapted well to garden feeding and are particularly prominent in the winter. Blue Tits are real woodland specialists, and excel at feeding in the upper branches of trees and shrubs, often hanging upside down.
Specifications
Scientific name
Cyanistes caeruleus
Family
Paridae
Habitat
Woodland, gardens, parks and busy cities.
Food
Their main diet of insects, grubs, caterpillars, fruit and nectar. Supplement their diet with energy-rich seed mixes, peanuts and peanut cakes.
Height
10,5 - 12cm
Weight
8 - 10g
Lifespan
1 - 3 years
Breeding time
April - June
Nest
nest lined with moss, grass and feathers. To encourage Blue Tits to nest in your garden, offer a 28mm or 32mm hole nest box
Sound
Fine, clear calls and song.
Characteristics
The Blue Tit is many people's idea of the most common garden bird. Nine out of ten gardens have a Blue Tit. A small, active, acrobatic bird, in winter they move around in roving flocks and flit around gardens and woodland constantly appearing hard at work. They are a cautious bird but not afraid of human contact and as a result adapt easily to garden feeding.The classic image of a Blue Tit is of them dipping their heads into the cream on the top of a milk bottle, although this image is dying out due to the increase in popularity of lower fat milks.
Children
7-16 white eggs with a few spots.
Characteristics
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