More Tits
Correspondents make it quite impossible not to return to the subject of tits. Perhaps the strangest—and most harmless—example of their activities is an attack on the tops of milk bottles which had been strung up on trees as a bird-scare! Newspapers, frequently used by bee-keepers for technical purposes, have been extracted from the hive by tits. The Devon Watchers (who say that the onset on milk bottles is now universal) argue that only great tits are responsible for the successful holing or removal of the caps, but that blue tits and coal tits take imme- diate advantage of the breach made by their stronger cousins. Other experiences hardly hold up this theory. There is, I think, no doubt that the birds find something savoury in putty and paint, probably the oil.
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