The titsand wrens were moving quietly about in the bush; others were sitting idly or preening their feathers on the twigs or the ground.
I have seen a pair of Blue Tits attack a single Long-tailed Tit with great determination, and not only did they pursue it, but, flying at it, struck it with considerable force.
On two mornings in succession ten Blue Tits invaded its ground, passing from end to end of it as they wended their way from tree to tree in search of food.
The two Shrike-Tits are found one in Eastern Australia and the other in Western Australia.
Tits hang to the suet bags, and a general assembly flock to the cornsheaf.
Finding that blue tits were among the visitors at the back, I hung up some lumps of suet and a cocoa-nut to the twigs of the bushes.
The suet was immediately attacked, but judging from the suspicious way in which they regarded the round brown object swinging in the wind, the Bath tits had never before been treated to a cocoa-nut.
These Tits show great affection and care for their young.
They build in the months of February and March; but I once found a nest of young Indian Grey Tits so late as the 10th November.
European house rat or reather larger, is of a lighter colour bordering more on the lead or drab colour, the hair longer; and the female has only four tits which are placed far back near the hinder legs.
Species of bear is Smaller than our Common black bear) this was a female bear and as our hunters informed us had cubs last year, this they judged from the length and Size of her tits &c.
Common European house rat or reather larger is of a lighter Colour bordering more on the lead or drab colour, the hair longer; and the female has only four tits which are placed far back near the hinder legs.
They saw a robin glance its bright eyes and burst scarlet and grey into the hedge, then some pertly-marked blue-tits scuffled.
Like the coal-tits they are joint-labourers, and both seem equally zealous.
When one of a pair of long-tailed tits enters the nest, he first pays attention to that part of it which is exactly opposite to him, as he does so.
There is one extraordinary power which these tits possess, which is that of turning their bodies quite round in the nest, whilst keeping the tail motionless, and in exactly the same place all the time.
Neither were coal-tits numerous, but still a pair or two seemed to live here, and were often engaged with the cones.
I have spoken of these tits having but one way of entering and leaving the nest, even when all ways lie open to them: but, more than this, they have one set path, by which they approach and retire from it.
Their sociability extends sometimes to birds of other kinds, as the Creeper and the Tits of several species have been seen hunting in company with them.
Tits of several species, particularly the great titmouse and the blue tit, come to thatch for insects, both in summer and winter.
Sometimes a sparrow may be seen clinging to the bare wall of the house; tits do the same thing.
Ulysses with his bow-string flogging Took care to keep these cart-tits jogging.
Whilst thus they tugg'd, a man there came, Tlepolemus I think his name, Driving his fiery tits full speed on.
There never was such a nuisance as those bottle-tits anywhere.
Ulyth was a great devotee of Nature study, and had the supreme satisfaction of being the first to discover that a pair of long-tailed tits were building in a gorse-bush down the paddock.
Ulyth was so afraid of disturbing the tits that she conducted her daily observations alone, fearing lest even Lizzie's presence might frighten them.
The pretty white-crested red-start flitted about from rock to rock, and numerous tits of various kinds flew about in flocks from tree to tree as we descended.
Crested tits and bullfinches lived in great numbers in this forest and gave it quite a homelike appearance.
But he seems very much afraid of falling off, and I think the tom-tits would laugh at him: perhaps they do, in bird fashion.
Now, tom-tits are, I think, the only birds in England that can cling to a thing with their heads hanging down; and they are very fond of fat.
At the very edge of this pool stand a few black pine-trees, and among the thick branches of these the Tits were playing.
On the hottest summer days the grasses still sigh; the bees hum all day long in the clover; the blue-tits tweet and twitter as they swing about the birches, and their cousins the coal-tits keep up an endless run of comment in the larches.
Of all the bird family, however, I think the coal-tits are our favourites—and there are such a quantity of them.
Just now the blue tits are very busy about the fruit trees, and a robin comes out from somewhere in the grotto at unexpected moments and stands motionless on a stone, with a bright eye cocked up inquiringly at the human intruder.
If these tits do not enter the garden, a plant must be carried to a place much frequented by them.
Some bird-catchers say that the tits with forked tails are alone addicted to this, but they are mistaken; it is certainly true that some are more cruel than others, experience teaches us this every day.
In autumn, as soon as the bird-catchers see these flights of tits succeed each other quickly, they call it their passage, and immediately prepare snares for taking them.
This trap should be placed in a garden, with a little oat straw fastened under in such a way that it may be seen at a distance, as the tits are instantly attracted thereby.
Though not nearly so plentiful as tom-tits, both marsh and coal-tits are with us more or less all the year round.
I had seen somewhere that if food were suspended from a pliable twig only tits would venture to attack it.
In spite of what Gilbert White says, I have never seen tom-tits here touch sunflower seeds.
In this way both great-tits and tom-tits can feed themselves without difficulty, but only one sparrow in twenty can manage with much ado to hold on and to eat at the same time.
At first, it was baited with corn, but while robins and tits went in and out without the least concern, not a sparrow would go near, and for a time the presence of the trap kept them away from the food-stand altogether.
Great-tits came but were always rather uneasy about it, but not one sparrow ventured to clamber down inside the roll, although it was there for more than a year and we had some very hard frosts.
Both tom-tits and great-tits in the flush of their spring-time ardour pay to their chosen helpmates the same delicate attentions as do robins.
Though great-tits are, no doubt, handsome birds, they are not nearly so interesting in my opinion as either of the other three common kinds of tit.
Tom-tits came to it in its new position almost as readily as when on the food-stand.
A pair of coal-tits that were here one winter seemed quite demoralised by the food-stand, and to have altogether given up hunting for their natural food.
In June broods of young tits appear flying from tree to tree in little parties.
All the fisherman sees, his daily companions by the deserted river, are the wren creeping in the flood-drift, the tits working over the alder bushes to see if any seeds are left in the cones, and the kingfishers.
Among the blackthorn several tits are busy, searching about on the twigs, and pecking into the petals; calling loudly as they do so.
Tits have visited the apple tree over my head, a wren has sung in the willow, or rather on a dead branch projecting lower down than the leafy boughs, and a robin across under the elms in the opposite hedge.
Stems of willow-herb, four feet high, still stand, and tiny long-tailed tits perch sideways on them.
In the crevices blue tits build deep inside passages that abruptly turn, and baffle egg-stealers.
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