No, I'm not talking about the sky! I have a great tit visitor to the garden who looks like a coal tit with a chest stripe. Is it unusual for them to have no colour?
If you can get a photo and post it here, it would help to make identification a lot easier.
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
They can be quite pale. Had a photo on here last year that was clearly a great tit. It ended up with people debating OTT about it being a coal tit. 'Unusual' is too strong a term IMO. Ditto 'rare'. Uncommon is probably more like it (or quite common depending on which way you look at it).
The only photo I have in the archives is this great tit in our last garden which had quite pale breast feathers.
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Regards, Hazel
I shall give it a go, Mike but it looks exactly like HAZY's photo and any photo I get won't be as good. Just realised I have two of them visiting. Can tell there are two as one has no tail feathers. Hopefully temporary!
About as good as I can do as I'm taking these through a window and the caged feeder (squirrel destroyed my old one!) does a lot of obscuring. This is the one with the missing tail who is most frequently here. Ironically, most of the visits in the last hour or so since I got the camera out were from a coal tit.
That's exactly the same thanks for the reply
No probs. For those wondering, it's in response to community.rspb.org.uk/.../great-tit-with-no-yellow-and-day-glo-greenfinches
Spot on Hazy exactly what I was viewing also
simonali said:I shall give it a go, Mike but it looks exactly like HAZY's photo and any photo I get won't be as good. Just realised I have two of them visiting. Can tell there are two as one has no tail feathers. Hopefully temporary!
Your photo was clear enough to make an ID, and just as importantly, you got confirmation on what you'd seen.
Next question. I've been out in the garden birdwatching and have noticed it is the great tits (No Tail and his/her equally pale friend) emptying my bird feeder onto the floor, thus attracting hordes of wood pigeons. After observing their behaviour, it seems they are going for the berry suet pellets in my mix and throwing away everything else. They've removed an inch or so from the tube to the floor in not a lot of time at all. Is my best bet to add more berry pellets to the mix so less gets dropped or fill another feeder with only those so they (hopefully) use that instead and leave the other feeder alone?