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Nice to see a family of LTT's
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When they DO come, they tend to be in at least a pair, often 3 or 4 and occasionally more (birds, not pairs!) They are sometimes on the fat blocks but also like to take spiders' webs from around the window frames, presumably for soft nesting material.
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Nah there's only 4 not over crowding... should be more this time 'o' year 
........ and they have a family bubble winter months so social distancing don't apply 
David forgive me long tailed tit mice are a personal fav.. think we have had the same family here for maybe 10 years maybe more 20???? I dunno it's a hellish long time I forget
They are silly tame with us but it's generations at play learning that trust ...............................,try watching your feeders just after dawn just before dusk. They have a large family up to maybe 10 12 kids, that's why they make an expandable nest as Nog says spiderwebs are the expandable bit but covered in moss and lichens................. feather lined .................a dome.
They stay as that family group until spring...they roost togther one line on a twig same spot every night weakest on the outside.......you'll see numbers decrease in the bitter cold in the depths of winter as sadly the weakest those on the outside of the roost perish.
They don't stay long look hard once one leaves they all leave, that group family bond is really tight listen they are always talking to each other. Clock when you see then David ,ie look at the time, once they know there's somewhere safe they visit regular
Dave as I say a personal fav and such a priviilage to be part of that little group's lives for such a long time, fat balls seem the fav, but we have watched the whole lot pick up sunflower hearts and smashed up peanuts ...... fly to a tree' where upon they hang upside down from one foot and hold food in t'other to feed tis like a chriimbo tree of pink black white dangliy thangs.
Special little birds David, they make me smile daily we are somewhere betwixt 12 and 15 right now ,but it's been so mind, for these little gems I hope it stays that way
Laurence ya wanna see 12 on the floor under ya nose they look like a load of soup spoons with their tails right up, always make me giggle, it don't matter how hard life kicks me this bird is just smiles. I'd summise you plausibly know the above is all truth and I'll be talking to them tomorrow morn... ( ere mate.....let's not tell folks i've taken to calling them and the goldies by shouting Com'on like I used to call cows might be a bit much in a toggin forum 'eh?
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Davey I don't normally post an image on someone else's thread, hope it's ok it's only I adore them and want you to understand where it can go This is an oldy probably a grand or great grand parent of those that come here now,? it's taken from my front door step, no hide door open, a tiny glimpse of what can happen if ya garden for 'em and share a few bob's( ok a few bob's might be a slight understatement) worth of food for years an years...these things take time I guess??
_70F6555 small jpeg by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
Have the most wonderful new year all
stu
........ and they have a family bubble winter months so social distancing don't apply David forgive me long tailed tit mice are a personal fav.. think we have had the same family here for maybe 10 years maybe more 20???? I dunno it's a hellish long time I forget
They are silly tame with us but it's generations at play learning that trust ...............................,try watching your feeders just after dawn just before dusk. They have a large family up to maybe 10 12 kids, that's why they make an expandable nest as Nog says spiderwebs are the expandable bit but covered in moss and lichens................. feather lined .................a dome.
They stay as that family group until spring...they roost togther one line on a twig same spot every night weakest on the outside.......you'll see numbers decrease in the bitter cold in the depths of winter as sadly the weakest those on the outside of the roost perish.
They don't stay long look hard once one leaves they all leave, that group family bond is really tight listen they are always talking to each other. Clock when you see then David ,ie look at the time, once they know there's somewhere safe they visit regular
Dave as I say a personal fav and such a priviilage to be part of that little group's lives for such a long time, fat balls seem the fav, but we have watched the whole lot pick up sunflower hearts and smashed up peanuts ...... fly to a tree' where upon they hang upside down from one foot and hold food in t'other to feed tis like a chriimbo tree of pink black white dangliy thangs.
Special little birds David, they make me smile daily we are somewhere betwixt 12 and 15 right now ,but it's been so mind, for these little gems I hope it stays that way
Laurence ya wanna see 12 on the floor under ya nose they look like a load of soup spoons with their tails right up,
always make me giggle, it don't matter how hard life kicks me this bird is just smiles. I'd summise you plausibly know the above is all truth and I'll be talking to them tomorrow morn... ( ere mate.....let's not tell folks i've taken to calling them and the goldies by shouting Com'on like I used to call cows might be a bit much in a toggin forum 'eh?) Davey I don't normally post an image on someone else's thread, hope it's ok it's only I adore them and want you to understand where it can go This is an oldy probably a grand or great grand parent of those that come here now,? it's taken from my front door step, no hide door open, a tiny glimpse of what can happen if ya garden for 'em and share a few bob's( ok a few bob's might be a slight understatement) worth of food for years an years...these things take time I guess??
_70F6555 small jpeg by Stuart Philpott, on FlickrHave the most wonderful new year all
stu
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You are oh so fortunate having such a regular family lineage staying in your garden area........jealous me, not a bit :banghead:
Like you if I was to say my fave when we get to see them is, likewise, the LTT's........just so uncommon for us to see them
PS a close almost a rare second fave is the Wren.
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You are oh so fortunate having such a regular family lineage staying in your garden area........jealous me, not a bit :banghead:
Like you if I was to say my fave when we get to see them is, likewise, the LTT's........just so uncommon for us to see them
PS a close almost a rare second fave is the Wren.
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You are oh so fortunate having such a regular family lineage staying in your garden area........jealous me, not a bit :banghead:
Like you if I was to say my fave when we get to see them is, likewise, the LTT's........just so uncommon for us to see them
PS a close almost a rare second fave is the Wren.
feel awkward bud didn't want to hi jack Davey's thread, ( also felt rude not replying ( between the devil and the deep blue huh?)
just love the little guys and wanted to share what can happen with him... how trusting they can be .mind it might take a while.but that's how it works, if ya want to befriend mad little wild things earning trust is a long long ol' road tis not days or weeks it's ruddy yonks and yonks.!!
Mate I know i'm blessed and i'm proper thankful an all,, you do understand how much joy all this is to me it's cheshire cat stuff,
but one sort of makes a place where it can happen: one starts with a place for the tiny things and the rest follows it ain't preddy preddy to a human eye it's that bigger piccyStart at the bottom garden for the tiny things build the pyramid from there all else follows... one has to make a place for stuff to inhabit, the rest is my madness but the place to happen isn't
Ha ha I've genuinely heard tapping on a window while posting here, this forum............pulled back a curtain and been met with a wren maybe a foot or two away .....again it's Nog's spiders
We sweep away all this to live in our super clean world Laurence and we ( so very humbly) SO miss the big picture iclke tiny things are the building blox
and a bit of madness of course
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