Little fearless blue tit
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Blue tit
| Blue tit | Sinitihane | Parus caeruleus |
The first guest at the bird feeder in the morning is the great tit. The prudent blue tit, also with a yellow belly but weighing only half as much, usually appears later.
The top of the head, wings and tail of our star are pale blue, the back has a greenish colour. The black lengthwise stripe on the yellow breast is less prominent than the great tit’s. The blue crown is circled by a white band and the cheeks are white.
Regardless of its small size its behaviour is audacious and quarrelsome. The beak and claws are sharp as nails and other bird feeder guests prefer to keep at a distance. Compared to other tits it takes less food from plants but is more often seen on the piece of lard. In reed banks the blue tits are common guests looking for wintering invertebrates and in severe times they search for berries and buds in deciduous trees and also insects wintering in bark crevices.
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