Monday, 12 February 2018

Confusion all round

I feel sure that I have posted about my confusion of coal tits with long tailed tits before, but search only turns up references 1 and 2. With the birds described at reference 2 now looking suspiciously like long tailed tits, despite having been tweeted as coal tits.

Today some tits turned up in the back garden with long tails, longer than their bodies, with some golden ochre on the lower parts and with some black on the upper parts. Today's choice is long tailed tits, rather than coal tits, which have a blacker head and a shorter tail.

Will there be no end to this particular confusion?

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/tweet.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/tweet-tweet.html.

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