Marsh Tit / Willow Tit Compasrison images

Both images taken a number of years ago at one of my woodland feeding stations where I have both species coming in to feed, the Marsh Tit (left)was taken in slightly lower light to the Willow Tit (right) so unfotunately the background is a little darker, but I think it's a good comparison to see both species side by side. I hope one day to get them both on the same perch in the same plane of focus, but as it took me 6 years to get them to land on the same post on the same day I guess it'll be a life times work!

EOS 1v/n 500mm f/4 IS

Hi Larry,
Thanks for posting this,very useful indeed.
I got my first Marsh/Willow Tit images just a few weeks ago and despite consulting a few different books,still wasn't entirely sure which one I'd captured.
I shall now use your images as a reference,which I find a lot easier to use than some illustrations.

Hello Larry
Yes, very useful images, thanks for the post. They really are very similar.
Best wishes
Phil

This is VERY useful. Nice to see such a similar pose and conditions etc to make ID's of these hard to differentiate birds

Thanks for posting

Graeme