Oh, nooooo!
!!!The Garden of Charles B
Re: The Garden of Charles B
A very smart Great Tit:
A day or two ago I observed a young female Great Tit hunting for spiders in the top corner of the window by the roll of of our balcony marquies.
Anyway our nylon window screen is held on there by Velcro-tape along the edges of the window frame; and she hung there by her feet on the screen in the corner (weighing only 20 gram) and unbuttoned the screen from the Velcro, ate the spider and then lovingly pecked the screen back into the corner snug to the Velcro!
On another occassion I had been experimenting with the insides of hot Turkish 'Sivri' peppers as a rodent deterant in my old feeder tray. And this same bird wanted to do some housekeeping as only the stem and 'cap' was left dried up in the feeder. She grabbed it in her beak, hopped out of the tray onto a bamboo rod by my raspberry bushes (on the balcony), looked around a bit (maybe for the bin) and then dropped it politely into one of the 45 l. containers where my raspberry bushes are planted!
A day or two ago I observed a young female Great Tit hunting for spiders in the top corner of the window by the roll of of our balcony marquies.
Anyway our nylon window screen is held on there by Velcro-tape along the edges of the window frame; and she hung there by her feet on the screen in the corner (weighing only 20 gram) and unbuttoned the screen from the Velcro, ate the spider and then lovingly pecked the screen back into the corner snug to the Velcro!
On another occassion I had been experimenting with the insides of hot Turkish 'Sivri' peppers as a rodent deterant in my old feeder tray. And this same bird wanted to do some housekeeping as only the stem and 'cap' was left dried up in the feeder. She grabbed it in her beak, hopped out of the tray onto a bamboo rod by my raspberry bushes (on the balcony), looked around a bit (maybe for the bin) and then dropped it politely into one of the 45 l. containers where my raspberry bushes are planted!