Baby Birds in the garden

On the 11th January we had a ringing session in my garden. A Blue Tit was ringed, a male as it happened. This can be told for certain by measuring the wing length which is longer in male Blue Tits than females. The last couple of days has seen the return of this bird sporting his ring and now with around 6 young baby Blue Tits and a mate. This morning I took a few photos of him with his youngsters.

Pretty certain that this is "my" bird because we placed the ring on the left leg which is not the usual leg to ring. On the picture below you can see his ring very clearly.

When I got up this morning there were lots of birds on the feeder, young sparrows, Goldfinches and the Blue Tit family. Without even my first coffee I went down to the hide and got a few photos of them.

I really like this picture and I am very glad to know that my garden has played a big part in the life of the adults and given them the chance to breed and that they have chosen to bring them in to the garden to feed.

One response to “Baby Birds in the garden”

Nina Midson

May 27, 2009 at 10:29 am

After finally filling up our bird feed we have sat here this morning and watched a hive of activity in our gardens. Watching certain birds fly back and forth we decided to have a look on the site for our weekly update!
Your pictures showed us that is was in fact a family of blue tits that were ferrying food back and forth to their babies. It has been beautiful to watch and I think we have distinguished between the female and male adults.
We were then surprised to see mummy blackbird and her baby getting in on the act.
Thanks for all the info, it makes watching them so much more enjoyable

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