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Country Life Trending: Blue tits exploring a blackthorn blossom in Aberystwyth. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Victoria Marston takes a look at the cheerful, colourful bird whose busy activity is such a feature of the season. Although seen all year, blue tits have an affinity with springtime, hopping busily among blossom-laden branches, wearing pale-yellow and blue plumage that seems to echo the season’s cheering daffodils and bluebells. Small, fluffy-looking and hyperactive, their restless activity has its own charm but it’s also practical, keeping them alert to predators, particularly parrowhawks. Holes in trees make preferred nesting sites, but Cyanistes caeruleus readily uses a nest box when offered, building a cosy cup of moss, wool, hair and feathers into which some 8–12 eggs will be laid. A sodden breeding season can be disastrous, as caterpillars for the chicks become scarce. ....