[Dave K]

...cope well with warming

Sorry, couldn't resist the double entendre appeal of the headline :%


"At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.

Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust."


http://news.bbc.co.u...ech/7390109.stm

[Nigel Bolton]

Like robins, have become fearless little birds. Often if out for a cream tea somewhere, they will fly down and nick crumbs off your plate, not even bothering to fly off sometines either.

A nice experience. I love seeing tits on the table.

N.

[Dave W]

This thread can only go downhill, I know it .

[John Mason]

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Dave W - 9/5/2008 20:15 This thread can only go downhill, I know it .

Nobody's mentioned the Chavfinches yet 666

Cheers - John 

[Stuart_W]

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Dave W - 9/5/2008 20:15

This thread can only go downhill, I know it .

Yeah, time and gravity will do that.......

[EllyTech]

Oh please! :o

[mixerman]

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Dave W - 10/5/2008 01:15

This thread can only go downhill, I know it .

i am "itching" to tell someone i have a bad case of "THRUSH".

oh dear. [s]

[Ed wxman]

I have a feeling this one has been milked a fair bit already..Nonetheless interesting from a bird-spotters point of view.Not that i am one, cheers, indeed a most interesting hobby.

[Jason Smith]

What a Load of BULL







..........................Finches I saw a few days ago! Must be global Warming. [hehe]

[cool j]

I'm strangly dissappointed having clicked this thread :( 8-) :p ;) .

Seriously though I love birdwatchin - I find the warm weather makes tits and many other types easier to view D-) [s] ;)

[Halo]

Yes, I like to see a pair of Great Tits in the garden too. 666

[Andy Mayhew]

I'm interested to see that British tits are adjusting to warm weather better than Dutch tits are .....

[EllyTech]

Ok that is quite enough now........the lot of you are acting like the 'great' variety. :p

At least it is warm enough for them not to be blue.......now you have me joining in .....arrrrgggg! @-(

[Nigel Bolton]

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EllyTech - 10/5/2008 20:25 Ok that is quite enough now........the lot of you are acting like the 'great' variety. :p At least it is warm enough for them not to be blue.......now you have me joining in .....arrrrgggg! @-(

Indeed. Blue tits in winter and red breasts in summer. Something to crow about, perhaps.

N.

[Lian]

You ROBIN lot, fansy stealing a heading from the daily sport lol :)

[Ed wxman]

Anyway, we've missed another point - warm weather and tits are synonymous..head down to Weston on a typical Saturday night to see yet more evidence.

[Nigel Bolton]

Turning into a bit of a mallardy. Time to duck me-thinks. Whose for the swan-song?

 

[EllyTech]

I'm back to the US chase forum for a night...in...gale. [hi]

[Nigel Bolton]

Goose with the territory.

[Ed wxman]

What a lark..