Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
: the Blue Tit. Like all our garden birds, Blue Tits need to put down fat reserves to make it through the longer winter nights (when they obviously can’t feed). However, unlike a larger garden bird such as a Collared Dove, the Blue Tit is probably only able to put down enough fat in a day to make it through one single long and very cold night. This immediately explains why Blue Tits are so active on short and very cold winter days, as a) they have less hours to collect food – perhaps less than 7 hours in the depths of winter in the far north of the UK
Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
: the Blue Tit. Like all our garden birds, Blue Tits need to put down fat reserves to make it through the longer winter nights (when they obviously can’t feed). However, unlike a larger garden bird such as a Collared Dove, the Blue Tit is probably only able to put down enough fat in a day to make it through one single long and very cold night. This immediately explains why Blue Tits are so active on short and very cold winter days, as a) they have less hours to collect food – perhaps less than 7 hours in the depths of winter in the far north of the UK