13 June 2010

Odd Behaviour By A Great Tit




I was watching a coal tit - we've not had one in the garden before - when I was told to look at the shed.

Was the great tit on the roof dead?  Had a cat gone for it?

No.   It was sunbathing.  It stayed for about three minutes then flew off.

Odd.  I've seen blackbirds doing this, and, suicidally, doing it on the grass.  but never a tit, andf never on a roof.

2 comments:

Ben Trovato said...

And there was I in my irreverent fashion expecting to read about some idiocy from Eccleston Square...

Rubricarius said...

The theory is that many birds do this as the UV light kills, or at least weakens, mites and the like that could damage the bird's feathers.

However, it could simply be the bird enjoying the sun.