Facts About Great Tits

Great Tit Parus major

• Great tits eat Spiders and Insects which are captured by foliage gleaning.
• During the breeding season they like to feed protein-rich caterpillars to there young.
• Great tits help to reduce caterpillars damage to apple orchards  by 50% .
• In autumn and winter they add seeds and berries to there diet.
• In England some of the Great tits know how to open foil caps of milk bottles.
• In 2009 Great Tits were recorded to kill Bats!!!
• These are the first song birds to be seen to kill Bats!!
• Also these strange birds have been know to use a pin needle to get out grubs from a hole in a tree!!!!!! OMG

Here are some great tits  feeding from a bird feeders we made

                                        

We are going to put 10 bird boxes up and hopefully the great tits will nest in them.
Here is a picture of one of the bird feeders we going to get!

 

Our friend is making us some bird feeders