Long Tailed Tit hiding in the shadows

Inverness-Shire, Scotland

Description

This was taken last winter from my new crested tit site but it also attracts all the other little forest birds.  On this occasion I was delighted the long tailed tits made a welcome guest star appearance after hearing them calling nearby but never making a visit to the site.  It was a pair that made a visit and one would always keep look out while the other fed.  They did not make it easy and would wait in the underside of the trees as this was better protection for them but more of a challenge to photograph them.