Gratuitous Great Tits at Volkspark Hasenheide

By Corey • October 19, 2007 • 5 comments

You had to know that I wouldn’t be able to resist doing this post for long. Great Tits and Blue Tits are common wherever there are trees in Berlin, which is pretty much everywhere. Both the trees and the tits are in courtyards, back yards, parks, and on city streets. The pictures here were taken this morning in Berlin’s Volkspark Hasenheide, an urban park a couple of blocks from where I am currently staying.

In addition to the Great Tits this morning I spotted Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Eurasian Nuthatches, European Robins, Common Blackbirds and Common Buzzards, to say nothing of Feral Pigeons, House Sparrows and Hooded Crows.

Great Tit

And a word of advice: if you are ever in Volkspark Hasenheide just don’t make eye contact with the young men hanging around in groups of two or three unless you want the opportunity to buy marijuana. Apparently the park is the place to go in Berlin for all of your munchie-inducing needs.

Another Great Tit

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Corey

Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

5 Responses to “Gratuitous Great Tits at Volkspark Hasenheide”

Patrick Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

I visited a park in Antwerp, Belgium with very similar birds and very similar clientele! I’m not sure if they were just looking to sell weed though…
Will Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Corey,

I’m glad that you got to see a lot of Tits while in Germany, no wait that doesn’t sound right…. (sorry I couldn’t resist)
Stephanie Oct 21st, 2007 at 12:14 am

Hey Corey!

I hope you took other cool pictures aside from just tits in Germany. hahaha yeah this one is just too tempting not to write. …i’m on vacation with sean til the 7th of nov. so we’ll be around!! Come down when you get a chance!

Steph
Jochen Oct 22nd, 2007 at 12:19 am

But Corey, you forgot to mention that Baltic Tits are the greatest!
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