Oh, wow… Y’know I just realized I could probably make some amazing suet molds for birds. (runs down to the basement to find that hand grenade…)
kestrelsays
@Marcus, #4: Ooh! Ooh! I know -- a cat mold! that would be perfect! :-D
wereatheistsays
German name is ‘Kohlmeise’. This is not an homage to our former chancellor Helmut Kohl, nor a reference to cabbage (German: Kohl). It’s a reference to ‘Kohle’=coal.
Latin: parus maius English: great tit (which fits the Latin meaning)
chigau (違う)says
#4 & #5
or a squirrel
Ice Swimmersays
wereatheist @ 6
This is a fine bird but not a great tit. The breast isn’t yellow with a black stripe. It is either Poecile palustris or Poecile montanus.
Nonono, it’s a marsh tit. Willow tits look quite similar but do not come to gardens.
The Kohlmeise is the great tit.
The food is suet with seeds. They are available in many variations. The classical ball shaped ones are called “tit dumplings” with the old joke going that it doesn’t taste like tit at all.
The last one features a classic pose. Which I like in this context.
It’s a marsh or willow tit, I think.
What is that that it’s (eating?) playing with?
@Marcus: looks like suet, with seeds in it? That would be my guess.
kestrel@#3:
That’s some mighty bright suet.
Oh, wow… Y’know I just realized I could probably make some amazing suet molds for birds. (runs down to the basement to find that hand grenade…)
@Marcus, #4: Ooh! Ooh! I know -- a cat mold! that would be perfect! :-D
German name is ‘Kohlmeise’. This is not an homage to our former chancellor Helmut Kohl, nor a reference to cabbage (German: Kohl). It’s a reference to ‘Kohle’=coal.
Latin: parus maius English: great tit (which fits the Latin meaning)
#4 & #5
or a squirrel
wereatheist @ 6
This is a fine bird but not a great tit. The breast isn’t yellow with a black stripe. It is either Poecile palustris or Poecile montanus.
Nonono, it’s a marsh tit. Willow tits look quite similar but do not come to gardens.
The Kohlmeise is the great tit.
The food is suet with seeds. They are available in many variations. The classical ball shaped ones are called “tit dumplings” with the old joke going that it doesn’t taste like tit at all.
I approve of this manner of tit.