Blue Titmouse

Blue Titmouse

Richard and Cherry Kearton

1902

White 100

The 1902 edition of Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne

White has much to say about what we just call the bluetit, especially its eating habits: it is, he notes, "a great frequenter of houses, and a general devourer. Beside insects, it is very fond of flesh ; for it frequently picks bones on dunghills ; it is a vast admirer of suet, and haunts butchers' shops. When a boy, I have known twenty in a morning caught with snap mouse-traps, baited with tallow or suet. It will also pick holes in apples left on the ground. and be well entertained with the seeds on the head of a sun-flower" (109).

  • Richard Jefferies and other British Nature Writers — Gilbert White, William Cobbett, and W.H. Hudson
  • Victorian Ornithologists

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