Seven young Great Tits in a nestbox in southern Cheshire.
This is my day 7 contribution to Becky’s October Squares challenge on the theme of Kind.
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Seven Of A Kind
Tag: Great Tit
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetrical.
A small selection of almost symmetrical photos.
The entrance to St Mary’s Church, Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Surprisingly symmetrical given that construction was interrupted for 20 years due to the Black Death.
Two American White Pelicans gliding in symmetrical formation, Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Symmetrical drinking glass detail apart from the colour of the lights used, blue daylight and yellow artificial light.
Almost symmetrical wing markings on a Magpie Moth. Hatherton, Cheshire, England.
Almost symmetrical juvenile Great Tits begging for food having just heard an adult land at the nestbox entrance hole. Faddiley, Cheshire, England.
Sort of symmetrical bare trees photographed on a walk around the neighborhood, South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
Having spent a lot of my spare time digitising my slide archives over the winter the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Inside was rather well timed.
I now have digital copies of most of the nestbox interiors documenting the nesting cycle of various hole nesting species. So here’s the inside of three different nestboxes and three different species using them.
An adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young. The adult has an unidentified insect in its bill.
A male House Sparrow feeding young.
Juvenile Great Tits begging for food having just heard an adult land at the nestbox entrance hole. Occasionally the adults will take a break from the constant feeding to feed themselves and do some feather maintenance. As a result, all the young are hungry when feeding resumes.
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Friendly Friday: Construction
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Construction.
After considering construction in the human world I took a change of direction and started thinking about some of the construction in the animal kingdom.
Here is an adult Great Tit using Moss to construct its nest.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Bathrooms/Outhouses.
As is sometimes the case, I took a sideways look at the challenge and thought about bathrooms and outhouses in the natural world.
To a bird, any water is a bathroom, here a male House Sparrow is bathing in a garden pond in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Bathing is an important part of feather maintenance.
An adult Great Tit removing a fecal sac from a youngster in Hatherton, Cheshire, England. The young produce fecal sacs to allow the adults to remove the droppings and keep the nest clean.
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Feeding the young again.
Throwback Thursday is a follow-up to last Tuesdays post.
Another shot of an adult Great Tit (Parus major) feeding recently hatched young. Taken using a specially constructed nestbox in Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
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Feeding Recently Hatched Young.
One from the archives taken in Cheshire in the late 1980s.
Having documented the complete nesting cycle of a pair of Eurasian Blue Tits in 1987 I went on to photograph other species in different nestboxes over the next couple of years.
Here an adult Great Tit (Parus major) is about to feed some recently hatched young with a small yellow green caterpillar. While it looks as if the bird is looking at the camera it was just the timing of the shot. It was dark inside the nestbox, I was releasing the shutter a second or two after hearing an adult land at the entrance hole.
