Young Blue Tits

It's been a while coming, but finally we have had some young Blue Tits coming into the garden to be fed by their long suffering parents. It seems to have been a fairly good year for fledged youngsters as we have had up to ten coming in, although I am sure that these are two different families as I have seen at least three different adults accompanying them.

Young Starlings

Feed me!

Young birds

The garden is full of birds at the moment and most notable among these are the young birds that are just starting to step out into the big wide world. Some are on their own, but most are still accompanied by an adult which sometimes feeds them, sometimes just looks out for them while they try and work out how to eat a sunflower heart!

The young Great Tits are not the ones from our Sparrow apartment, they are yet to fledge and as yet the Blue Tits are still in their box in the garden. When these young venture out our garden will be crammed full of birds, all eating me out of house and home!

Young Great Tit (Parus major)


Young Blackbird (Turdus merula) Slightly older than the one below

Young Blackbird (Turdus merula)

Young Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) No face markings, but gold wing bars

Young Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)