Willow Tits

must be the best spot to see them in Lincs -- on view almost 100% of the time grabbing and hoarding

a selection of tits

Willow Tit is s till a pretty regular species in N Lincs -- I found 26 pairs in 2012 in a couple of areas --

Willow Tits

best time of year for finding Willow Tits and confirming territories; this pair are busy excavating a nest hole in a birch stump a fairly typical site in the forest -- they seem to be still doing quite well in some areas in North Lincs

Willow and Long-tails

Willow Tit is a bit of a local speciality bird but even here numbers are well down on 20 years ago but now seem to be fairly stable-- the new collective noun for Long-tails is a fatball of Long-tailed Tits