bearded tit

Bearded tits need something gritty to help digest their seed diet.

Bearded tits are particularly vulnerable to long cold winters, when populations can be...

Thrushes use mud, the bearded tit likes flower petals.

Bird species living on the site include the Bearded Tit and the Bittern.

If you are patient among the reeds, small flocks of Bearded Tits will flit by.

Bearded Tits have stayed on the reserve throughout the winter, as have Bitterns.

Many bird species live on of visit the site including the Bearded Tit and the Bittern.

Bearded tits form flocks in the reedbeds.

Depending on the time of year, you may spot avocets, marsh harriers, bearded tits, nightingales and more.

These reeds grow in the banks of the River Tay and act as home to a fairly uncommon bird called the bearded tit.

Migrants include Jack snipe and green sandpiper, and winter visitors include hen harriers and bearded tits.

It is known for its wetland breeding birds, including Marsh Harrier, Bittern and Bearded Tit.

"That is a Panurus Biarmicus, a bearded tit," said Culain.

It has a winter roost of up to 4,000 Northern Lapwings, and also hosts Water Rails and Bearded Tits.

The Bearded Reedling or "Bearded Tit", an Eurasian species long placed here, is more insectivorous by comparison, especially in summer.

Among resident breeding birds are Avocet, Bearded Tit, Bittern, Marsh Harrier and Spoonbill.

Song of the Bearded Tit (Real Audio soundfile from Sveriges Radio P2)

South Milton's reedbed supports breeding Reed, Sedge, Cetti's Warblers; Bearded Tit has also bred at the site in the past.

The pastures contain breeding Northern Lapwings, and species such as Sedge and Reed Warblers and Bearded Tits are found in patches of common reed.

Numerous other breeding birds include: Marsh and Montagu's Harriers, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank and Bearded Tit.

Other key species seen at the site include marsh harriers, herons, bearded tits, four-spotted chaser dragonfly and hairy dragonfly as well as mammals including otters and water voles.

Get tips on identification, good birdwatching areas and equipment and be guided on a walk around the reserve which is home to such rare birds as bitterns, marsh harriers and bearded tits.

The site provides an important refuge for a range of wetland birds like the bittern, water rail, sedge and reed warblers, bearded tit and grey heron, which can often be seen or heard there.