Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (14/03/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (on top of bird feeder hanger). Nothing else quite like them. You can see why an old name for them it "Titmice" - they are very small birds and their giss is a little mouse-like. They are not a "true" tit, so not a member of "Paridae", instead "Aegithalidae" - the. only member in the UK of that family.
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (09/03/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (on the fat feeder). They absolurely go mental over that feeder!
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (14/03/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (on the fat feeder).
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (14/10/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (preparing to investigate the fat feeder). They have a distinctive red fringe around their eyes.
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (31/01/2009) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (on the peanut feeder).
Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (31/01/2009) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (on the peanut feeder). They form sometimes very large colonies and all sleep huddled together for warmth in the winter. We get loads here because of the bird feeders. I love their tinkly, tinkly calls - they are constantly chatting to one-another.
Long-tailed Tit Juvenile (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (14/10/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (just hanging out in the sun). Juveniles lack the pinky colouring of the adults and are instead a murky white and brown. The red fringe around the eyes seems to be more evident in juveniles.
Long-tailed Tit Juvenile (Aegithalos caudatus) Family = "Aegithalidae" (14/10/2006) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (just hanging out in the sun).
