The largest UK tit – green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a black stripe down it’s yellow front. It is a woodland bird which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor. It can be quite aggressive at a birdtable, fighting off smaller tits. In winter it joins with blue tits and others to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food.

The Great Tit has a wide range of songs and calls but it is best recognised by it’s two note song that sounds like it is calling “Tea-cher, Tea-cher”

• What does “scour” mean in the phrase “scour gardens”?