THE BLUE TIT 
alarming, hissing noise, and peck at the intruding 
fingers. Because of this the Blue Tit is sometimes 
known as Billy Biter.” She lays wee whitish eggs, 
generally six or seven in number, but sometimes as 
many as eighteen are found. 
A writer tells how once in cold weather he set 
a row of bird-traps in his garden. Seven times over 
he took a Tit out of one of the traps and placed him 
in an aviary. In the afternoon he went to the aviary 
to look at the birds he had caught, and he found no 
Tit there at all. He was greatly puzzled, but after 
thinking the matter over he made up his mind that 
he had been catching the same Tit over and over 
again, and that this bird had managed to escape each 
time. So he marked the tail of the next Tit he 
caught, and then put him in the aviary. In twenty 
minutes he saw another Tit in the trap, and, going 
to look, he found, as he had supposed, that it was 
the same one, caught for the ninth time : the Tit 
with the marked tail. 
The clever bird had managed to escape by 
squeezing his body through the wire mesh at the 
top. He had put one wing through first, then his 
head, and then his body. 
