Successful Strategy

An overlarge family of blue tits has just fledged. Far too many to count and all quite identical. 'Tis immensely tiring attempting to watch them as they are all over the place. All the time.

Discovered the fat ball hanging in the little weeping laburnum bush on the lawn. All descended on it, knocking each other over in the rush. Standing on top of sisters and shouldering past brothers. Except for one - It disappeared inside the bush and suddenly erupted from beneath everyone else. They all flew off in a panic and it was left in sole ownership of the fat ball. 5 seconds later they all returned so it was forced to repeat the manoeuvre. And again. And again. Several minutes later the strategy was still working well and Myself was exhausted from watching them so went for a snooze beneath the cherry tree..