. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . biggest andhas a yellow chest. The long-tailed tit hasthe long tail, the blue tit is the only one thatis markedly bright blue with a yellow is only the great tit that utters the peter,peter, peter (whilst the others have themetallic * chee, chee, chee, etc., notes). Itlooks greenish and grey, with a black andwhite head. The blue, marsh and coal tits aremuch alike in shape. Distinguish the marshtit from the coal tit, which it much resembles,by the white spot at the back of the head. The nests and eggs of the tits. The L
. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . biggest andhas a yellow chest. The long-tailed tit hasthe long tail, the blue tit is the only one thatis markedly bright blue with a yellow is only the great tit that utters the peter,peter, peter (whilst the others have themetallic * chee, chee, chee, etc., notes). Itlooks greenish and grey, with a black andwhite head. The blue, marsh and coal tits aremuch alike in shape. Distinguish the marshtit from the coal tit, which it much resembles,by the white spot at the back of the head. The nests and eggs of the tits. The Long-tailed Tit makes the beautiful bottle or cocoa-nut-shaped domed nest covered with lichen(figured on p. 152 and in Part I, p. 86). Theothers build in holes, in stumps of trees andthe like, sometimes low, often high up, an openrounded nest, generally with a very small holeof entrance to it in the tree, so that the handcannot be got in, and there is plenty of ADDENDA 183 grass and other material to fill up the hole.(Nest boxes for tits in gardens have the hole. XXXIII : Tree trunk full of holes in which a colony ofblue tits nested. only just big enough to admit these birds sothat the larger starlings and sparrows, etc., t^4 ADDENDA which also Hke these boxes to build in, maynot be able to get into them.) The greattit, especially, collects much material in itsnest hole. The blue tit (tomtit) will some-times choose all sorts of odd places to build in,as an old bottle, a pump, letter-box, etc.,selecting something with a small hole ofentrance. The materials of the nests aregrasses chiefly. They are lined with grass,moss, feathers, hair and wool. The nest ofthe blue tit is very elegant. Tits build inspring and may have more than one nest eachyear. The numbers and colours of the eggsof these birds are: Great Tit, six to nine, whitewith large spots and specks of red. Long-tailed Tit, ten to twelve (or more), white witha few specks of red. The smallest egg of allthe British birds. Blu
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