Quote Originally Posted by Hepcat
And at Louis. You must be either a bird enthusiast or just someone who has tried putting lots of rude things into the wikipedia search.
Are you insinuating that I spend my evenings googling for stuff like 'great tits' and in so doing accidently stumbled upon the existence of a bird species with this amusing name!?

Shame! Shame on you!

No, what really happened is that I am an avid birdwatcher. And so, last winter, I worked as a volunteer bird counter. For four months I lived in a tent in the Welsh marches. I was completely cut off from civilisation, no internet, no cell phone, no electricity. Just rain, wind and cold. Fire could scare away birds, so no cooking. I lived off whatever I could catch, supplementing that with grass or tree bark.
My time was spend staring at the skies. Pen, paper and binoculars in hand, waiting for birds to fly over. Every few days or so I would actually see a bird. Exhilarating moments. Then I looked the bird up in my bird encyclopaedia and added it to the list.

This, Hepcat, is what really happened and how I got to know about the great tit.