The Teacher. (more pics in post)
The Teacher. (more pics in post)
Great Tit (Parus major)
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6
f/6.3, 1/500s, ISO 500, 500mm Cambridgeshire 2019
The largest Tit species found in the UK, its range covers almost the whole of the mainland, apart from the highest parts of the the Scottish highlands.
It can be a bit of a bully and I see it on our bird feeders pushing off other species including Starlings, which takes some doing!
It has a distinctive call that sounds very much like Teacher! Teacher!
What a beautiful bird.
Thanks xc2215x 😊
haha, i am doing the Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! whistle when i fill up my feeder in the morning to hopefully tell them what's happening. I feel like they hear me.
Great shots as always Ted!
edit: Just read up about the differences between great tits and chickadees, and i saw a description of a tit song being "if-he". That is what i'm whisteling, i assume it's the same as Teacher?!
Thanks bumps 😁 (it is the Dutch for bumps isn't it?)
Lol I call to my crows when I put fat balls out for them. My wife thinks I'm nuts but they do listen to me!
I've never seen a chickadee I'm afraid, we don't have them in the UK.
Ah, but you have seen them, in a manner of speaking. To quote Wikipedia:
The tits, chickadees, and titmice constitute the Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa. Most were formerly classified in the genus Parus.
Members of this family are commonly referred to as "tits" throughout much of the English-speaking world, but North American species are called either "chickadees" (onomatopoeic, derived from their distinctive "chick-a dee dee dee" alarm call)[1] or "titmice".
I'm sure I'm wrong, but I imagine some colonist puritan going "We can't keep talking of shameful female things... we will henceforth refer to them as chickadees"
This one is very common in Scandinavia too, such a pretty little bird. Thanks as always for your pics Ted 👌
Thanks Lunch 😊
That is an absolutely gorgeous picture, and the foreground/background focus is perfect. I'm not much of a birder (or a photographer!) but the pic drew me in from r/All (or whatever we call it on Lemmy now). Thank you for adding this bit of beauty and perfection to my day.
Thank you for your kind words. It is one of my favourite pictures and it means a lot that other people enjoy it too.