Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
"A Blue Tit sits on a mossy branch": Photographer: 
A common visitor to Gardens of the British Isles, the Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) is one of our more colourful. More formerly known as the Eurasian Blue Tit it is a species common across Europe and is closely related to the African Blue Tit.
"A Blue Tit and a Gold Finch feed from a feeder": Photographer:
Blue Tits like many others of the birds in the Passeriformes, literally “Sparrow Shaped”, will eat small insects, caterpillars, nuts, and seeds. They are quite fussy eaters though often seen picking through food in feeders and throwing the seeds they don't want to the ground.
"A Blue Tit perches on a bird feeder": Photographer:
After sitting and watching them feed for hours I also noticed they were much more "flighty" than the Finches, Blue Tits will typically search for the food then immediately fly away once they found the morsel they were looking for.
"A Blue Tit lands on a branch, next to another Blue Tit": Photographer:
They also had a tendency to perform reconnaissance on the feeder, hopping about in the branches nearby before committing. As it turns out this is a self-preservation technique as I saw two Sparrowhawk attacks, one of which appeared to be successful.
"A blue tit checks out the bird feeder from its perch": Photographer:
Fortunately these beautiful birds have thrived alongside humans, with a solid population across the UK and Ireland, their song is frequently heard even when you can't see the birds themselves.
While they have plenty of predators in Sparrowhawks, Weasels, Jays and Squirrels, they are agile and seem to have found a comfortable place in modern parks, gardens, and woodland.
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