Generally speaking, blue tits are pleasant garden birds that you tend to overlook when something more interesting comes along. However, I have now found myself in the position of placing the blue tit in the ‘something more interesting’ category. I live on the outskirts of Nottingham City Centre, in Sherwood to be precise (not actually near the forest of Robin Hood fame, that's about 20 miles up the road) and right off one of the main roads into the city. There are very few trees in the immediate vicinity, where back yards predominate over gardens. On my little street all my neighbours have been steadily renovating their tiny front gardens into something more manageable. This involves removing the few trees and decent sized shrubs in favour of hard landscaping and pots of petunias.
*disclaimer – OK, so I haven’t managed to get a shot of the blue tits at mine yet. So enjoy this image taken in my parents back garden in Yorkshire!
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