Bearded tit

The Bearded Tit is also known as a Reedling. I had to cross county lines today and leave Sussex by the Sea and travel to the depths of Hampshire to a place called Farlington Marsh. I had no intentions of photography as it was a birding trip with my local RSPB friends. Luckily I had packed my bridge camera in my rucksuck. If only I had taken the Nikon with telefoto lens. One doesn't come across these birds everyday so I had to make do with a very distant and heavily cropped record shot.