What's this all about?

It inhabits woodland Elegran. The info I looked at said nothing at all about marshes. I wonder why it has that name?

Think Marsh tit is chip chip chip chip chip chip chip chip! Will ask my DH about the chi chi pooey

Could it be a coal tit, have a listen to coal tit on you tube

The Marsh Tit has several tunes, according to the RSPB app I've got, but the description Elegran gave of its song was exactly that on the Chirp app, and was immediately recognisable for the pattern. I've got coal tits visiting my garden and their song is different. I love these handy apps - you can really learn to differentiate between birds. The Chirp app was free!

I listened to a clip of a marsh tit and it did not sound quite the same - my bird put the emphasis on the poo-oo-, the one in the recording put it on the first notes and gave it a short poo - more like a sneeze, which is how the marsh tit's song is described. I am now wondering if it is part of a blackbird's song, and listening to all the clips of that I can find. Lots of variations there.

Just this minute been watching crows mob a buzzard - they are very brave. Presumably they are nesting in the nearby trees and wanted the buzzard to take a hike.

I love the call of the buzzards - they fly over our cottage all the time.

The seagulls mobthebuzzards round here!

Must download Chirp app, thanks for info.

My favourite raptor call is a female Osprey soliciting for food.

Also love the call of the Red Kite

My favourite small bird is, of course, the Nightingale, heard at least 6 singing on Sunday.

Any of the summer visitors.

Since starting this thread after watching a singleton crow repeatedly take on a buzzard, I've really started looking at the birds in my garden. They seem not to notice me when I'm lolling in my swingseat. I've noticed there isca pair of robins nesting in the thatched top of my bird table and a pair of little goldcrest nesting in a conifer. Must buy a pair of binoculars, I'm getting hooked.

aka, Enjoy!

Thanks bags but now I'm worried about the gales that are due. Will the nests be safe?

Some will, some won't. Shrug. How the world works.
Meanwhile I'm hoping the local cats and magpies don't find the willow warbler and robin nests in my garden.
The endless fight to survive.....

Fascinating to watch.

Ditto Bags: Enjoy! it's free, delightful and birds are beautiful Get a good bird book too. Collins Guide is one to recommend.

We found an abandoned Blackbird nest in our holly tree, two beautiful eggs but, sadly, no parents. They are still around,probably, nesting in the hedge at the bottom of the garden. Sparrow triple nesting box now secure after being blown around in last gale. They seem to prefer my neighbours roof space but fingers crossed. Lovely to have Willow Warblers nesting Bags. Envious

I've been enjoying this thread too. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive pair of binoculars. I need some lighter ones (mine are inherited and ancient.) I've looked in JL but find it hard to imagine the magnification I need when focusing on distant televisions!

Hmm! I use Opticrom, they vary in price, I have a middle of the range pair but my DH has top of the range, If you go to any RSPB reserve with a shop they will have a range of different priced bins and will let you try them and advise you.

Televisions?? 10 x 40s are a good magnification. Mine can focus to within a couple of yards maybe less.

Thankyou Flower, the televisions were something distant to focus on in John Lewis. I hadn't thought of an RSPB shop though.

Had a vision there of televisions perched in distant trees chirping happily. What size eggs do they lay?

Another query for twitchers. Yesterday loads of baby starlings were fledged in my garden and surrounding gardens. I watched as in every case it was the adult birds coping with one very demanding and noisy fledgling*.
I've noticed this in previous years, mother and father and only one fledgling. I've never seen two or more.
Where are all the brothers and sisters?

You often get a free pair of binoculars when you join the National trust. And, if someone pays for you membership as a 'gift' [you can always pay them back ] your membership costs a lot less and you'll get your years NT membership.

Starlings?

sorry; I've gone back a bit to what dustyangel was asking...

Np Tegan

Don't Buzzards make a mewing noise?