Georgi Tsachev
Coal tit (Periparus ater)
It is much smaller.
It is long with the tail up to 11 cm. and weighs 10 grams.
It inhabits mostly coniferous forests of pine, spruce and fir, where it is a background species.
It is widespread in almost all of Europe, Siberia, the Far East to Korea, the Himalayas, Asia Minor and North Africa.
They make their nest low in the natural holes of old trees, as well as those carved by other animals: woodpeckers, squirrels and more.
What a wonderful capture!
Lovely capture great bird not seen one of these
Somewhere I must have a photo taken with the GSM because such a bird had landed on my hand.
And indeed, the feathers on his head are very black!
That would have been very special…
I agree with Indexer and Doc below. This is a great shot of a cute little bird that is somewhat similar in size to our own « moineaux » here in Canada. I presume that the name « Coal tip » comes from the fact that the top of his head is jet black just like coal?
The name in English sounds “Coal tit”, but in Bulgarian it is “Pine tit” or “Black tit”.
That is a good shot – I would be very happy to have taken that!
This is a bird that is found in the UK, but you are lucky to see one because of where they live and their habit of darting about.
There are 4 mountains to Sofia, so there are many birds nearby
It looks like the bird is gathering to burst into the air! Great shot!
A second later it flew to the feeder…