Coal Tit caching food
Home |
| Click on thumbnails for enlargement. |
|
Being at the bottom of
the pecking order among the tit family the Coal Tit does not hang about at the feeders, lt
grabs what it wants and is off in a flash. |
|
| It often takes more food than it needs
as it is one of a number of birds that will store food away for a later day. |
|
| It will hide food in crevices in tree
trunks or walls and in the ground. I have watched it chaching away sunflower seeds in the
open tops of bamboo canes in the garden. |
|
| This one was trying to push the seed
into moss on a stone but eventually decided it was not such a good idea. |
|
| This is much better, a deep crack
between two stones with plenty of moss for cover. |
|
| Job done, now back for more seeds. |
|
| I often wonder just how much of this
cached food it finds again later in the year. I Don't think it has the memory capacity of
the Jay who can recall where it cached away most of its store of food come the winter. |
