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24-03-2020, 07:29 PM
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A question about long tailed tits

For the last 8 years i have had long tailed tits regularly visiting my garden, as many as a dozen at a time. They love the fat balls & I assumed that was why they came, but this year's family are doing something strange... so i hope one of you knows why.

My windows are Georgian style and I am getting as many as 6, each day, tapping on the corners of my windows. It is quite loud, as I can hear them from the next room, but I don't know why they are doing it.

Can anybody explain?
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24-03-2020, 07:32 PM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

Like this after small insects or trying to mate with their reflections

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24-03-2020, 07:34 PM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

It could be they can see themselves reflected in the glass, I've seen other birds doing this, one Pied Wagtail used to do it on the wing mirror on the car. Another reason could be that you have putty holding your windows in, they like the linseed oil in the putty, some people think it's got some thing in it the birds need.
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25-03-2020, 03:33 AM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

Twink lucky you .
I am getting fed up with my rooms they are like a bunch of squawking bandits.
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25-03-2020, 01:01 PM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Twink lucky you .
I am getting fed up with my rooms they are like a bunch of squawking bandits.
Are the walls closing in on you, Muddy.
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25-03-2020, 01:24 PM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

I miss all those Little Tits who gave the Dawn Chorus every morning, sitting on the Telephone Lines.

Now all demolished

Where are they now I wonder?
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27-03-2020, 01:22 PM
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

Originally Posted by Tiffany ->
Are the walls closing in on you, Muddy.
Oh sugar .....
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Re: A question about long tailed tits

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Oh sugar .....
 

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