Blue Tit

Information

• What do they eat: Insects and spiders. Much of their food is found on outer branches and twigs and they can be found hanging upside down to feed.

• During the breeding season they will feed caterpillars to their young. They visit garden feeding stations and eat seeds, fat balls and peanuts.

• In the autumn they will eat berries, insects and nuts.

• Blue tits are common in woodland, especially oak woods, hedgerows, parks and gardens. They're widespread and found across the whole of the UK with the exception of some Scottish islands.

• In the winter individual birds and flocks will join together with other tits and search for food.

• They nest between April and June and lay between 8 and 10 eggs, they will only have 1 brood per year.