Eurasian Penduline Tit

Works reed beds, willow scrub, and riverside vegetation for small insects and seeds, often hanging acrobatically from thin stems while foraging. Listen for its thin, plaintive, whistled call, a good way to locate a bird moving through dense reed cover before it comes into view. The distinctive, tightly woven, pouch-shaped nest suspended from a slender branch is most visible in the breeding season, roughly spring into early summer, before leaf cover thickens.