Blue Tit

[RosieB]

You may find this a bit daft, but I have lived in this house for 26 years now and never seen a Blue Tit around at all and I do watch the birds. It is in the middle of a housing estate.
This morning I saw one for the first time collecting my labradors dead fur in its beak. I was so thrilled to see one in my garden I had to share it with you all.

[Dogghound]

Do you have many trees around? how often do you look Blue Tits are extremely common could you have been missing them?

[Kayleigh]

They love dog hair they normally raid my hanging basket Hessian as doggy said they are everywhere you could have just missed them or they were in other gardens close by..

[Graham Barker]

dont worry....im a bird watcher and i rarely get either blue or great tit in my garden....it is urban but i think its how its situated near the top of a hill, so most fly over...we do have shrubs etc in the garden and even put food out in winter, but this has attracted little over the years. our best bet is to feed the birds we get ie starlings can be quite good...some house sparrows...and a few other bits and bobs...but tits...no...the good news, for me i suppose, is we are moving...so im hoping all this changes...so your situation isnt rare...
graham

[RosieB]

I have no trees at all by me, just some far off hedges and a lady 20 doors down has trees, and loads of birds go to her.
I have been feeding every winter, but stepped up my game 2 years ago. This was due to a virus in the Forest of Dean that killed off many small birds, it was believed to of been passed on in water. I did the RSPB bird watch for an hour and had some good results, which was very pleasing. When the snow was down last winter I had a Redwing stay in my garden for a week, feeding until the snow left and so did the bird.
I watch the birds lots, but my nut feeders just go to waste, no one wants them.