The red-headed long-tailed tit is by far the smallest bird I have ever seen. Perhaps because it is the smallest bird in the country and its name is indeed long, most people call it the little tit.
Although the tits are small, they eat without hesitation. As soon as they move, they form a group, screaming "chichijiji" in a thin voice, flying and jumping among the trees. Other birds eat nectar and fruits on the trees, and it looks for insects on the trees to eat.
According to the body proportion, it is so small, it should eat some ants , aphids or something. I have seen the White-eye bird , which is slightly larger than it, picking up aphids on the back of bamboo leaves. But the little tit has great ambitions. It is so small that it can pick out a long caterpillar from the albizia flower .
The caterpillar was very long, and the little tit was also very happy. It carried the caterpillar to the trunk of the tree and slowly cleaned it up. It first shakes the caterpillar on the tree trunk a few times. After the caterpillar stops struggling, it straightens it out and swallows it bit by bit from the tail. After eating the caterpillar, it wiped its mouth on the tree trunk, sat down and rested for a while before leaving. Another little tit also caught a caterpillar. It hurriedly flew away with the insect in its mouth, probably hiding somewhere to taste the delicious food.
Caterpillars that big are not easy to come by, and they are very happy to catch them. The caterpillar was smaller, but the chickadee was not sloppy either. It knocked it unconscious before starting to eat. No matter how bad
is, they can still find spiders. I always thought that the little spiders running on the tree trunks were agile, but I never thought that no matter how fast they ran, they could not run faster than the little tits, so they became a delicious meal for the little tits.
Of course there are some small bugs on the trunk. I can't see them at all standing under the tree. In fact, I can't see the caterpillars in the flowers or the caterpillars on the leaves, but they can't hide from the eyes of the little tits, so Only then will the little tits find them one by one. There was about a nest of bugs on the tree trunk, and three or four chickadees gathered together for a meal and worked together to eat all the bugs. When
was full, they did not leave immediately, but played in the tree for a while. Two chickadees stood on the trunk of the tree. One was a fledgling and the other was probably a parent bird. Although they did not interact with each other, they felt close to each other.
Then, one flew away, and then a group of them flew away, and suddenly the ground became quiet, with only the wind blowing quietly. After a while, I heard the chirping sound again, and they came back again. As soon as I got back, I started looking for bugs. How many bugs will there be on an Albizia julibrissin tree? Come to think of it, even the little tits can't be counted.
And I don't worry about this, I just want to know if this group of little tits is the same group as before.
