I am always happy to see these birds. Small, round, with a tiny black beak and long black and white tails they are not unlike feathery lollipops.
They fly in small flocks, sometimes along with other sorts of tit. They flit through branches looking for insects and call to each other with little piping whistles. I was watching a flock and heard their calls suddenly change to one I'd not heard before - clearly an alarm call - as I watched a kestrel fly overhead.
They have the longest tail in proportion to body length of any British bird.
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