Old King Coal .......

As hyper active birds Coal Tits are restless and never stay in one place for long giving rise to a lot of blurred images in my experience.

Unlike their dapper relation the Marsh Tit ( a favourite of mine to be featured on Friday ), the plumage of Coal Tits always seems to me to be a bit scruffy and ill defined perhaps with the exception of the white stripe on the back of its black head.

Maybe I am being a bit hard on the species !.