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parents and so on, so the behavior gradually expanded out to cover the It is some time since I have lived in the UK. It was probably about 1989 that we were there last for a lengthy period, and at that time milk still came to the door in glass bottles with foil caps. At that time I knew about the Blue Tit story, but thought of it as somewhere between urban myth and the stuff of animal behaviour texts. But one winter day I was birding with some friends in rural Gloucestershire. Shortly after dawn we drove into a town where milk in bottles was being delivered door to door by a man in a motorized cart. The cart was being followed - literally - by a cloud of Blue Tits in flight, anticipating the next stop. Eric
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