Long-tailed Tit

Before the beginning of the breeding season, I usually saw the long-tailed tits in pairs at our feeders. Unfortunately, I don’t know where they have been breeding now, because I don’t see them at all since a few weeks — but all the more the much smaller fir tits. This time, the long-tailed tit had taken up waiting position below the nut net in the rose. The picture shows so nicely that they have a scalloped yellow rim above the eye like an eyelid — I always think they have eyeshadow on!