Tinches Tasty Titbits, York (2024)

27/11/2022

Here at Tinches we are just as fond of art as we are of nature.
Dear fellows, may we present you the mastery work of
Her painting is so realistic one can almost see the little Robin about to take flight.

07/11/2022

A Little Chaffinch about to sing a loud, full, bubbly strings of notes.

Have you heard a chaffinch singing?
In any case, Tinches have added a very calming tune appropriately named “In the garden” for your enjoyment within this post. Stay as long as you wish, & have a wonderful week.

📸 lovely capture!

18/09/2022

The instantly recognisable small passerine bird in the tit family, Blue Tit.
Fun fact: Did you know, Blue t**s are common and widespread throughout the British Isles, however they’re are absent from both Orkney and Shetland?

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13/09/2022

When a little garden visitor becomes a lovely composition.
Tinches here wishing you a good week.
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06/09/2022

‘s place is vibrant with life & sunshine.
Tinches ♥️ it!

10/08/2022

Fun fact: The blue tit is a songbird and it’s favoured habitat is broad-leaved woodland.
However, the blue tit is extremely adaptable and can be found abundantly in several other habitats.

Blue t**s love the hedge around Tinches gardens and are constantly seen flying back and forth between our bird feeders and the hedge where they all loudly & proudly sing (not in unison).

Tinches Tips: Please leave a shallow bowl of water outside as heatwaves sweep through the country, this will not only help birds & wildlife, you might also be able to get some cool shots to share.

📸: registered this lovely blue tit at Tewin Orchard Nature Reserve.

01/07/2022

July is officially here, the garden is beaming with life and we do so love to have a little Robin redbreast always around. Robins are well known to British gardeners and they are unafraid of people often hope to score any food which might be brought up to the surface on recently disturbed or planted gardens. Have you seen a Robin today?

📸 has her very own little redbreast visitor!

16/06/2022

Now we’re heading towards summer we’ve been witnessing many fledglings developing wing feathers which are large enough for flight.

📸 got a perfect snap of this young blue tit.

13/06/2022

Like most songbirds, baby blackbirds are born altricial, meaning they’re totally blind and are largely undeveloped.
Nevertheless baby blackbirds grow exceptionally quick, obtaining around 50 to 60% of their adult body weight in the first ten days.
Fluffy, downy feathers begin to grow after a couple of days, giving a week-old nestling blackbird a somewhat round or rotund appearance, but it won’t be time to fledge until another week has passed.

📸 captured this adorable video of a baby blackbird being fed out of its nest by its equally large parent.

13/06/2022

Like most songbirds, baby blackbirds are born altricial, meaning they’re totally blind and are largely undeveloped.
Nevertheless baby blackbirds grow exceptionally quick, obtaining around 50 to 60% of their adult body weight in the first ten days.
Fluffy, downy feathers begin to grow after a couple of days, giving a 7-day-old nestling blackbird a somewhat round or rotund appearance, the chicks are ready to fledge within 15 days however they may feasibly survive out of the nest after 9 days.

📸 managed to capture this lovely video of a blackbird looking after an equally large offspring out of its nest. Simply adorable!

11/06/2022

Wishing all a great weekend.

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30/03/2022

Did anybody say Tasty Titbits for robins?
A little red breast stoop patient waiting for his share.

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30/03/2022

Did anybody say Tasty Titbits for robins?
A little guy came around to get his share.

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10/03/2022

Finch of gardens, woodland, parks and farmland - the Chaffinch is present all year round. If you’d looking to see chaffinches in your garden: Bird seed mixes, mealworms and suet are great starting points for feeding them.

Tune in & find all about Tinches range of carefully designed Tasty Titbits to feed birds exactly what they need all year round.

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03/03/2022

It has been very windy lately at Tinches HQ, still our gardens are full of life today.
This is a very attractive garden visitor and one of our most instantly recognisable garden friends, blue tit.

They have preference for a particular nut and can be often seen flocking around garden feeders. Do you know which it is?
Tune in to find out more.

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02/03/2022

Did you know: House sparrows are persistent, resourceful and intelligent. In fact, Fitzwater (1994b) reports a house sparrow’s brain usually accounting for about 4.3% of their body weight, which is considerable more than those of other birds.

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27/02/2022

Starlings can actually be good for the garden! They eat gypsy moths and caterpillars, which are an invasive pest. The moths destroy trees and vegetation. Starlings also eat flies and fly larvae, which can become an irritation if they have multiplied in a pile of grass cuttings left near to the house for too long.

One too many Starlings in your garden? They are extremely gregarious birds, preferring to nest in colonies in house eaves, bringing large numbers of them into our gardens. They also synchronise egg laying to ensure the whole colony fledge almost simultaneously creating sudden dense flocks of very hungry juveniles.
In case you’re having one too many starling eating your seeds during the breeding season, make sure that you feed your garden birds early in the morning, as starlings tend to eat later in the day.

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25/02/2022

The Blackbird (turdus merula) has a great singing voice, can be found in woodland and grassland areas and is also a common visitor to UK gardens.

Did you know: The Beatles recorded a song named after this widespread bird.

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24/02/2022

Did you know: Robins are fiercely territorial over food supply. Therefore if you see more than one Robin in your garden, it’s probably his mate.

📷 captured this focused little robin looking fierce.

What do you think this little robin was thinking?

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21/02/2022

Springtime is around the corner, this is the time of year when long-tailed t**s start building their nests. Did you know it can take them up to 3 weeks to build it?
Keep a look out for shrubs such as hawthorns or bramble, or even high up against the trunk of a forked tree and you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a long-tailed tit in action.

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Bring life to your garden with Tinches Tasty Titbits.
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21/02/2022

Springtime is around the corner, this is the time of year when long-tailed t**s start building their nests. Did you know it can take them up to 3 weeks to build it?
Keep a look out for shrubs such as hawthorns or bramble, or even high up against the trunk of a forked tree and you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a long-tailed tit in action.

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Bring life to your garden with Tinches Tasty Titbits.

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