Sometimes, when I show the pictures of a Long-tailed Tit, others look at it, amazed, that such a lovely and charming bird, looking almost like a plush mascot, lives in Poland for a whole year round. Long-tailed Tits live in leaved and mixed forests. I could often spot whole flocks, which, when keeping a certain distance can be photographed without masking. While visiting an open-air museum in Sanok I have spotted quite numerous flock on a singular tree. Of course, near to a forest. In Poznań they could have been spotted in a city park. Long-tailed Tit is a grateful object to photograph, although you also need to have some luck, as not all of them are as quite charming. There is a large distinction within a species. You can also notice that in my gallery. Its weight does not exceed 10 grams and a wingspan is 20 centimeters.
Last minute news 09/2013
A few new photos added to Tit’s gallery I took when once again I was on the lookout waiting for beavers to come. I sat on a hill, so that in front of the lens I could see the trees growing on flooded beavers’ valley. And because tits usually are staying quite high in the trees and avoid undergrowth there was an opportunity for me to have their photograph taken. It is interesting that every time I photograph them I can notice quite large differences in body shape and coloration of the bird. Tit is unique to some extent as it was chosen from hundreds of birds to be a symbol of Polish Bird Protection Society. It is worth mentioning the fact that I was able to record the sounds of tits, which flew around in quite large number. Well I failed to capture beavers, but taking photos of tits and recording their sounds was a great job.
Last minute news – 02/2015
Sometimes, you can find little information about the species itself or background of creating pictures of animals presented in the gallery on my site, simply because nothing interesting happened or I could not find any curiosities of the animal photographed. This time, however, I had to describe the circumstances in which I took the new images for existing galleries of yellowhammers, long-tailed tits and nuthatches. In the vicinity of the Slovak border, in a small village on the Polish side, at the turn of rural road there was a place where I could safely stop my car. Just out the window of the car I could observe treetops which were at about eye-level in front of me at a distance of several meters, there was a steep slope, and rural buildings below. I could watch there yellowhammers, long-tailed tits, nuthatches and a great spotted woodpecker slightly further to the left. I took several interesting photos of all three of them, but the great spotted woodpecker, and they enriched the existing galleries. I could not presume, however, that my observations would arouse concern among villagers. Although I noticed an old man who watched me with a pair of binoculars, but it did not come to my mind that my presence there could be so disturbing that somebody could report this to the police. For me it was the first time when I was stopped by the police while shooting, and where it was - in the middle of the village, on the road in broad daylight. Two police officers arrived, they were really alarmed by my 600-lens covered with the masking material. "Slowly put it off" said the policeman. But after a while, after my explanation what I was doing there, their fears and emotions came down. A resident of a nearby house was reassured by cops’ intervention and everything went back to normal state. But now after the police action and a visit of a noisy quad driver intrigued by my presence I could only shoot canopies. This is how ended the second attempt to take photos from this place. The vast majority of images were taken during the first day of shooting there. This description relates commonly to news from 02-2015, to yellowhammers, long-tailed tits and the Eurasian nuthatch.
Last minute news – 05/2020
It's quite funny that, by modernizing individual galleries recently, I feel like I'm setting up galleries for a new species of bird. The quality differences are so great that very little remains in the gallery after my old photo achievement. Even these old photos are better prepared. Thus there are radical qualitative changes in galleries. I try that my galleries would be not overloaded and contain 24-30 photos, so the old pictures are replaced with new, better, more interesting photos. Such extreme changes in my galleries are made on an ongoing basis, but do not go to the news. Such radical changes in the gallery, inter alia the gallery of Long-tailed tit  are recorded in the information and presented in the news on my website.
Last minute news-04/2021
During the cleaning works in my the garden, a Long-tailed tit appeared quite unexpectedly. Quite unusual, because this is my first observation in my garden. The bird appeared in search of food and material for building a nest. The gallery has been supplemented with new photos introducing so much variety to the existing gallery that it goes to news on my web page.