I finally met the marsh tit (Poecile palustris) for the first time (at least after starting photographing and registering birds), while visiting my parents on the island I'm from two weeks ago.
I think I have seen them when I was younger, since they are more common where I grew up. But they are rare where I live now, and I already had decided that this had to be the year that I had to find them and get them on my list and camera. But I didn't know it would happen already on my first visit home this year.
It was a regular visitor at a bird feeding station in a garden where I was allowed to go to take pictures.
It looks very similar to it's cousin, the willow tit (granmeis in Norwegian) that I posted yesterday. But I clearly see the differences after photographing hundreds of willow tits before meeting this marsh tit.
And it was interesting that there were no willow tits by these feeders, like I am used to both on that island and where I live now.
Unlike the willow tit that breeds all over Norway, the marsh tit only breeds in the lowlands in the south and north to Trøndelag. It is sparsely found in Nordland and inner parts of Eastern Norway.
It can also be found throughout temperate Europe and northern Asia.
(Løvmeis in Norwegian)
My album of birds here.
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