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BBC: Great tits cope well with warming
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via the BBC:
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust. Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.
I'm encouraged, and hope that the coming summer and possible record temperatures will be met with continued coping by Britain's great tits.
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Oh, like you didn't look.
Hey, waitaminnit...
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If only the bloody moths, flies, mosquitos, bees/wasps, and other buggery riffraff would cope a bit less well with the warmth and lack of a proper winter. 
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Hey, what's Oisin doing in a tit thread ? 
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Originally Posted by turtle777 
Hey, what's Oisin doing in a tit thread ?
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Twittering, obviously. Well, almost twittering. 14 characters above twittering.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Hey, what's Oisin doing in a tit thread ?
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An intriguing question. Oisín, something you want to share with us?
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Twittering, obviously. Well, almost twittering. 14 characters above twittering.
Your explanation sent me to tittering. *brings thread full-circle*
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Originally Posted by xi_hyperon
Your explanation sent me to tittering. *brings thread full-circle*
The poor tits, being shaken up by the bouncing of your tittering.
Somebody please think of the tits!
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Somebody please think of the tits!
No problem, all the time 
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And if you don't like Tits, then please help out the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: a bird whose whole common name is a giant innuendo!
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Awesome New Name! Same Great Taste!
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Now that sounds like my type of pecker!
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Unfortunately for me, there's a woodpecker who works on the chimney of my house every morning. For anyone who likes peckers, I'd be willing to catch him and give him to you for free.
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*sigh*
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Now that sounds like my type of pecker!
Tsk tsk tsk... Oisín... What am I going to do to you?
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QVANTI CANICVLA ILLA IN FENESTRA
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Originally Posted by vexborg
Tsk tsk tsk... Oisín... What am I going to do to you?
Is that an open question? 
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Everyone, evacuate this thread, immediately.
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buggery riffraff
Thats a large group.
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Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
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here's a nice pair of tits
(Last edited by Chongo; May 9, 2008 at 07:15 PM
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Psalm 33:12  
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This is where I post a rebuttal which a picture of a large pecker, but as a straight guy, I can't stop staring at those two beautiful tits.
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Awesome New Name! Same Great Taste!
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We've been getting some peckers in the back yard.
Also, we have a bird feeder which holds 9 lbs(!) of seed.
Those birds are pigs. They can go through the whole thing in 1 week.
No tits though.
Oh and we also have a suet feeder. The peckers like the grease.
Apparently so do tits, but not at my place. We just get the peckers and a few other kinds on the grease.
Here is a picture off the net of bushtits on the grease.
(Last edited by Eug; May 9, 2008 at 09:00 PM
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