Blue tit boom 'may cause crisis'

BBC NEWS ^ | 6 February, 2005 | A.N.Other

[ijcr]

A baby boom among Britain's blue tits could cause an avian housing crisis in 2005, according to wildlife experts.

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is urging people to put up nesting boxes to help the birds this spring.

Data collected for the trust's Ringing Scheme, showed 2004 was a productive year for blue tits, many of whom will now be looking for their first homes.

But natural nest sites, such as holes in trees and buildings, vanish as woods are tidied and houses are repaired.

Nest Box Week

Once a bird has found a place to nest it may return for several seasons.

The BTO is organising National Nest Box Week - to be celebrated between 14 and 21 February - in a bid to persuade people to put up nest boxes this spring.

According to BTO Nest Record Scheme data, blue tits have an average of just over seven chicks per nest, with each chick being fed about 100 times each day.

It is thought that between hatching and fledging the average blue tit family will eat about 10,000 invertebrates.

The BTO says that encouraging blue tits to nest in the garden could provide an ecologically friendly form of pest control.

[ijcr]

Homeless Tits....sniff.Time for a section 8 program.

[Enterprise]

Blue tits? Did someone get confused about which body part they were supposed to dye?

[JesseJane]

Maybe they can bunk with the Blue Flooted Boobies... :)

[Fido969]

You posted that just because of the headline.

[ElkGroveDan]

Makes me think of Andorian women.

[blau993]

I have to say that I saw the headline and wondered if it was an article about the Super Bowl half time show.

[Professional Engineer]

Go figure. LOL

[MisterRepublican]

Tits without adequate housing. What is this world coming to?!!

[Diddle E. Squat]

A way to show solidarity with the Iraqi people at Mardi Gras?

[Oblongata]

This article is incomprehensihble. Those crazy brits.

[petro45acp]

Someone just wanted to post that headline!

Good on ya!

Top sends

[Dog Gone]

So, what's your point?

[Enterprise]

"Blue tit boom 'may cause crisis'

Things are shakin' on this thread already!

[Max Combined]

"Blue tit boom 'may cause crisis'"

Those d*mn kids and their tatoos.

[SmithL]

Are you sure you didn't get this from the Sun's Page 3?

[ElkGroveDan]

Where???? Where?????

[Dog Gone]

The BTO says that encouraging blue tits to nest in the garden could provide an ecologically friendly form of pest control.

Try saying that to your mommy.

[divulger]

I have to say that I saw the headline and wondered if it was an article about the Super Bowl half time show.

Thanks for the smile but blau993, the article didn't say anything about pasties like the one the skank Janet Jackson wore during her "constume malfunction." ;^D

[add925]

"Here I am Big Boy!"

(BARF)

[P.O.E.]

What happens when you overinflate your falsies?

The envelope, please.

[martin_fierro]

Cute little blue tit.

[alloysteel]

Sometimes it is instructive to read more than the headline.

Here I thought there must be an awful lot of young females standing out in the cold. With their blouses unbuttoned.

[Rakkasan1]

they can come live here in MN with the rest of us blue state
bitches.

[flada]

I'm expecting the VPR (Views to Posts Ratio) on this thread to be enormous.

[mewzilla]

Cute little critter.

[followerofchrist]

A good thing they are enlisting the public to help create homes for them.

[mewzilla]

Awww, but what's wrong with his...er, breast?

[ScottFromSpokane]

I was going to post a URL which sounds like a porn site but is really a bird site.

Good thing I checked. It's now a porn site.

[robertpaulsen]

The expert on the subject. Our Libertarian friend.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Whoops. I got the URL wrong, that's why:
http://www.nice-tits.org/

[followerofchrist]

Nice pic. We have a lot of diverse birds here. My question: Where are all the conservationists and bird watchers here? Please tell me liberals aren't the only ones who appreciate nature! You "peeps" must all live in the city.

[cyborg]

OMG really!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[TADSLOS]

Nest Box Week

Who needs to worry about blue tits when there's a nest box week?

[mewzilla]

I live in a small city, but we get lots of birds and other critters. Yesterday we had two female Goldfinches in the finch feeder, hot and cold running squirrels in the other bird feeder going muzzle to beak with some sparrows, juncos, and a nuthatch. Fortunately there was enough feed to go around :)

[B4Ranch]

Ladies, if yours are blue, then you know it's too cold for them to be out!

[cyborg]

Polar fleece works wonders.

[Ditter]

Oh thank Goodness, I thought it was another disease alert that I had to watch for in my old age.

[ijcr]

It is a matter of perception.

A good example is to ask a person for a four letter word ending with the letter K meaning the same as intercourse.

The answer of course is talk,but........

[DTogo]

Better blue tits than blue balls. ;^)

I had to say that...

[JamesWilson]

That is a cute tit.

[bert]

The Tits at my feeders like sunflower seeds. None are blue however.

[Ditter]

I live in a wooded central part of a very big city and we have dozens and dozens of Goldfinches in our yard right now. Do you have any black thistle feeders for them? They will begin to leave here (Houston) in another month but a few will stay until April and some will turn their beautiful golden color before leaving.

[ThreePuttinDude]

My question: Where are all the conservationists and bird watchers here? Please tell me liberals aren't the only ones who appreciate nature!

No, most of us don't have to make a big deal out of our consevationism. We just do it.



TPD

[austinmark]

Yep... Like my Grandpa used to say.......

"if it has wheels or Tits, your gonna have problems with it ".... .

[commonguymd]

And you read the post just because of the headline. lol

[mewzilla]

We just got one of those black thistle seed feeders and the finches really love it.

[Ditter]

Good for you. I hope you attract more than 2 Goldfinches. When you have lots of them, the air is filled with their music. It sounds like someone is playing the sound trac from a old Disney movie like Bambi. LOL!

[R. Scott]

Oh...birds.

[cajungirl]

Me too. first thought was Janet jackson.

[B4Ranch]

My soft hands are much better than anything else! As a man with experience in cold weather country I give great warming massages and I will tell her how pretty she is too.

I was weaned way too early! Never shake 'em at me!