My resident blue tit is grumpy, and with avian numbers decreasing at an alarming rate who can blame him?<\/p>\n
Brian sits, puffed up with his own importance, glowering at me through the kitchen window. He wants to come in and occasionally lunges at the window to make his point. I\u2019m not even sure what he is grumpy about \u2013 it\u2019s a great week for Brian. Because blue tit sightings (sorry, did I mention Brian is a blue tit, or Cyanistes caeruleus<\/em> as he\u2019d put it on his LinkedIn?) in gardens were up almost 10% on the previous year in the RSPB 2024 Big Garden Birdwatch<\/a>. Meanwhile, Cosmopolitan<\/em> magazine insists sky blue<\/a> is the \u201cmust-have hue\u201d for spring.<\/p>\n Maybe Brian is crotchety because, despite his beauty and soprano trill, he remains in the No 2 slot of most-spotted birds, another year trailing to the frankly rather drab house sparrow. Or maybe he\u2019s in a flap because all media attention has focused on the collapse in starling numbers \u2013 the lowest since counting began in 1979.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My resident blue tit is grumpy, and with avian numbers decreasing at an alarming rate who can blame him? Brian sits, puffed up with his own importance, glowering at me through the kitchen window. He wants to come in and occasionally lunges at the window to make his point. I\u2019m not even sure what he … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}