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10 May 2008

Great tits cope well with warming!

post by: arse_hat at: 01:42 | 13 comments

"The finding is surprising in that the birds are using the same old rules, but the rules still work"

posted by BoringPostcards 10 May | 01:53

Average tits hate the warming. Stupid sweaty tits.

posted by taz 10 May | 01:55

That quote may only be funny to the Brits among us.

posted by BoringPostcards 10 May | 01:55

I get lots of tits in my garden. They love fat balls.

posted by essexjan 10 May | 02:00

That second one's a real low-hanger, there, jan.

posted by BoringPostcards 10 May | 02:02

Amazon UK seems to be a little confused about the fat balls. But then, who isn't?

posted by taz 10 May | 02:05

I'll tell you something, a Google image search for 'fat balls' brought up results that I will probably need electro-convulsive therapy to forget.

posted by essexjan 10 May | 02:09

Also, hanging a fat ball in the little plastic mesh sack is a waste of time because it takes a squirrel a nanosecond to steal it. I use one of these. The squirrels are still able to hang off the bird table and eat the fat balls through the feeder but they can't run away with them any more.

But I do miss the comic relief of watching a squirrel trying to carry a tennis-ball-sized lump of food without dropping it.

posted by essexjan 10 May | 02:13

A fat balls carrier from Amazon?

posted by arse_hat 10 May | 02:21

The things you can buy nowadays!

posted by taz 10 May | 02:25

The webz doth provides!

posted by arse_hat 10 May | 02:30

Pretty birds, wish we had them here.

posted by deborah 10 May | 12:36

You do, deborah, but you call them chickadees.

posted by essexjan 10 May | 12:45

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