A Great Tit ringed in Winder Wood, Roeburndale as a pulli last year was retrapped near Wray (also Roeburndale) at the weekend.
It might not sound too earth-shattering a question, but where do the Great Tits all go in winter? Winter observations suggest the aren't present in the upland woods, but they aren't retrapped elsewhere in the same way as Blue Tits (which can show surprising movements from the Lune Valley woods to lowland urban areas.)
So if they don't move, and if they don't stay in the upland woods ....... what do they do?
perhaps its time to question the old assumptions ... or to return to the hibernation hypothesis!
maybe we might learn something by ringing all the pulli we can find!
paul
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