Feeding time for juvenile Blue Tits

In a previous post I uploaded images of a juvenile blue tit being fed by one of its parents. Today – on almost the same branch in my garden – I was lucky enough to witness the same event, this time with a pair of young tits demanding attention. The action went like this… One of the young birds was first on the branch, noisily demanding to be fed. It's difficult to ignore the demands of an infant and, sure enough, the parent responded by joining its offspring on the branch. It looked like it was about to hand over the scraps of fat and seed when, suddenly, a second juvenile tit appeared on the branch and, for some reason, the parent decided to feed this bird instead. As you can imagine, this did not go down well and – before all three birds flew off – the young tit not given something by its parent gave the adult bird what I can only describe as a quizzical look…