Long-tailed Tits... it's a family affair!

I came across a family of Long tailed Tits all carrying food to a nest in a gorse bush at Breney Common Nature Reserve early this morning.

Unusually there were at least 5 birds all feeding the nestlings in their rather unique nest of moss, cobwebs and hair, decorated on the outside with lichen.

Whether this was a second brood or not, as they are known to nest early, it seemed possible that siblings from the first brood had been enlisted into feeding the next clutch.

If it works don't knock it!