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Which way up?
A blue tit's beak is short and thin, just right
for picking up insects and spiders. But how many of these do you
see in the depths of winter? If your life depended on it you would
certainly find more! At this time of year, most insects are hidden
in bark, on the undersides of leaves or safe inside seed heads,
perhaps as grubs.
Blue tits, however, examine everything very
closely - just in case they can eat it. They spend only half their
time on a branch the right way up. Often, they hang upside down,
peering under leaves and into cracks in bark. It can take a blue
tit half an hour to search through a whole tree, examining each
branch and leaf as it goes.