Gramaisc said:
Right!..
There are some cobwebs, but they seem to completely ignore these. They often sit on the sill, outside where the main cobweb is, and yet totally ignore that. They only tap on the ( somewhat more spic and span ) top half of the windows.
Perceived threats? Nobody else can perceive anything at all, just the noise....
Family man? What sort of example is he setting?
Spiders? I, too, have seen the odd spider removed from my windows, but they would have been able to remove a whole bucketful of spiders over the last five days and would be too heavy by now to fly ...
Sorry for stating the obvious but this genuinely intrigues me. I remember the first time i saw a long tailed tit vividly - i thought it must have been an exotic escapee. In the interim many once reasonably common birds have become rarities but long tails have prospered.
The only bird book i have states; "
Outside the breeding season family groups roam widely and often join other families, forming flocks of over 20."
One thing i have noticed about them, in common with robins, is their fearlessness. I have often been within three feet of them, as i have been with robins, without them being unnerved by my presence at all. This makes me wonder whether they have the same aggressive streak - i used to seek out robins wearing a red t-shirt and can confirm that the blighters will actually attack you - as robins.
It makes it all the more perplexing, in the links posted earlier, that it appears to be common behaviour. Maybe the entire UK stock derives from a particularly successful head-banging individual.
