Watch this pair of long-tailed tits as they put the ultimate touches to their tender, expandable nest. This chicken species has a number of chicks and so there must be room for the younger as they develop.
Lengthy-tailed tits are widespread British backyard birds. They start pairing up in late January and by Valentine’s Day a lot of them have already begun nesting. Their nests are woven from lichen, moss or sheep’s wool and stitched collectively utilizing cobwebs which stretch because the chicks inside develop up. These birds tits have spherical our bodies coated in pink fluffy feathers and lengthy black tails. It’s this lengthy tail that helps simply distinguish this species from others.
They’re very energetic birds and flit from department to department, hardly ever staying nonetheless for greater than a second, in order that it may be exhausting at first to identify them. However their noisy, sociable calls normally give them away and it didn’t take me lengthy earlier than I discovered this pair flying up after which down the size of my backyard hedge. I adopted the road of this hawthorn till I discovered their nest, hidden in a close-by berberis shrub. The fragile shade of their pink feathers complemented the deep purple of leaves of the berberis. Even the brown pheasant feathers they carried of their beaks to line their nest with had been completely matched.
