The Blue Tit
| Appearance: | The blue tit has blue wings, a blue tail and a blue crown. The blue tit has yellow underparts. It has a short beak , wings and tail, making it a small bird.The daddy blue tit is brighter than the mammy blue tit. |
| Found | Blue Tits are found in parks, gardens and woodlands. |
| Nest: | The blue tit makes her nest in a hole in a tree or in a nesting box. She makes her nest out of moss and twigs and dried grass. She lines it with feathers and fine grass. The mammy blue tit lays 5-12 eggs with reddish flecks. |
| Feeding | The mammy blue tit feeds the baby blue tits.The blue tit likes caterpillars.The blue tit eats nuts, worms, seeds, insects and caterpillars. The blue tit is acrobatic and is able to hang onto the feeding bags very easily. The blue tit is a dominant bird at the feeder and bosses the other birds. |
Click to visit Ambleside School, England to see their recorded webcam photographs of a bluetit nesting in their nesting box last Spring.
