NATURE NOTE FROM ENGLAND
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Great tits have finished moulting and are looking very glossy and colourful.
Who has been peeking into my bedroom???
Posted by: Punkin | October 08, 2008 at 10:23 AM
(And I can't help the moulting thing - it's a gland problem)
Posted by: Punkin | October 08, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Great tits have finished moulting and are looking very glossy and colourful.
...also, they're real and they're spectacular.
Posted by: Siouxie | October 08, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Need pics . . .
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves ‹(•¿•)› | October 08, 2008 at 10:33 AM
"In November and December, as it gets colder, they will fall almost completely silent, but in the new year they will take up their territories more firmly again...."
Happens to us guys, too.
Posted by: Danny | October 08, 2008 at 10:35 AM
it always helps to stay abreast of ornithology...
Posted by: insomniac | October 08, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Yes, we wouldn't have to peek into your bedrooms if you'd supply pictures of your glossy, colorful, real, spectacular tracts of land! *smile*
Posted by: Allen at Division | October 08, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Good LORD! Who gave Dave the triple espresso with a side of Sudafed?!?!?
*SNORK* @ Punkin!!
Posted by: Diva | October 08, 2008 at 10:57 AM
they prefer to go off with other great tits
A scientific explanation for females all going to the bathroom together.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | October 08, 2008 at 11:01 AM
But are they real?
Posted by: Margaritaville | October 08, 2008 at 11:21 AM
... and their song will be heard regularly from then on until June.
Thanks for the mammaries...
Posted by: Shammy | October 08, 2008 at 11:39 AM
...they prefer to go off with other great tits and feed on the mast ...
Lucky mast.
Posted by: Lairbo | October 08, 2008 at 12:21 PM
In November and December, as it gets colder, they will fall almost completely silent, but in the new year they will take up their territories more firmly again...
Frozen nips will do that. Punkin told me.
Posted by: Siouxie | October 08, 2008 at 12:31 PM
And the guy (it had to be a guy) who originally named a small unassuming little bird after a prominent feature of female anatomy is still pissing himself with laughter, even from the grave.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | October 08, 2008 at 12:36 PM
The males have a gleaming black cap and collar...
The males? Must be the larger one, on the right.
Posted by: Jollymon | October 08, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Shouldn't this have been reported by a perky news team?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | October 08, 2008 at 12:50 PM
I say that all the time, and I usually get slapped.
Posted by: Moon | October 08, 2008 at 12:54 PM
That's what keeps them quiet for two months. The slapping.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 08, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Moulting? Moulting?
Posted by: Hammond Rye | October 08, 2008 at 01:17 PM
*waves @ Hammie!!*
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 08, 2008 at 01:36 PM
*WAVES @ Hammie!!!*
Maybe they meant to say melting??
Posted by: Siouxie | October 08, 2008 at 01:39 PM
"They are warning other great tits that the territory is still theirs."
I don't understand why this article about birds suddenly veers off into a description of starlets arguing over the best table in a Beverly Hills restaurant.
Posted by: Danny | October 08, 2008 at 01:45 PM
This is why New Englanders have the expression "Colder than a Witches tit".
Well, not so much an expression, as a unit of measure. You guys don't wanna know how cold it gets for "snowballs".
Posted by: Punkin | October 08, 2008 at 01:59 PM
When the frost is on the Punkin....
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 08, 2008 at 02:17 PM
This appeared in a local paper in England once, I swear:
"In this cold weather it is amazing how many blue tits you see around."
I think the subeditors do it when they are bored.
Posted by: Dr Acula | October 08, 2008 at 03:29 PM
Why, thank you!
Posted by: Teri Garr | October 08, 2008 at 06:43 PM
APRoPO JOKE. A woman swimming approached the beach.,only to realize her top was gone. Since the beach was crowded at the time, she tredded water'til most of the crowd had left.
Just two boys remained at the water's edge, when (with her arms crossed) she approached the kids. One boy shouted,"Hey lady, if you're gonna drown those kittens, I'll take the one with the pink nose."
Posted by: Ednausean | October 09, 2008 at 09:10 PM