blue tit

noun

First recorded in 1835–45

Brown thrushes, dark blackbird, blue tit, and wagtail gave a little colour to the angle of the meadow.

The commonest of all is the little blue-tit, or “tom-tit,” as it is so often called.

Creeper and nuthatch, and starling and gem-like blue tit, found holes enough in the old trunks to breed in.

More fearless still is a blue-tit that has her dwelling in a crevice in the wall some fifty yards further on.

The saw-like note of the great titmouse is said to foretell rain; that of the blue-tit, cold.

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