Long Tailed Tits are becoming a more common sight in gardens. Flocking in vocal family groups during the Summer months and larger groups during the Winter, you can certainly hear them coming before you see them. Their main diet is insects and spiders and are partial to a tray of mealworm or a feeder of fat balls. They make their oval nests in low shrubs, woven with lichen and mosses, stuck together with spiders web and lined with a couple of thousand feathers. Toasty for a brood of 8-12!
To encourage them into your garden, provide a welcoming habitat that includes dense shrubs and trees. These will provide a safe place to roost, nest and have lots of nooks for insects to hide and nesting materials to grow.
Fun fact…they’re not actually a Tit! They belong to the family Aegithalos, not Parus!
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