Continuing with yesterday's family - and a "plus one". Monday's sketch was a few North American representatives and today I went to Europe. The Eurasian Blue Tit we saw a few places, this particular one in Elantxobe in the Basque Country of Spain. The Sombre Tit was foraging on wild fruits near Sofia Bulgaria, as was the Long-tailed Tit. Just to be clear, the latter is the Plus-one, not a member of the Paridae, but of the Aegithalidae, though it shares the habits, the look and hence the name - Tit.

Eurasian Blue Tit, Cyanistes cyaneus, Elantxobe Spain
Sombre Tit, Poecile lugubris, Sofia Bulgaria
Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos caudatus, Sofia Bulgaria

We see the American Robin in winter wherever there are fruiting trees, and usually they come in numbers, eat up all the fruit then move on. The bird Jorge photographed was part of one such flock that he found on campus this afternoon - and by the strong coloring, it's an adult male.

American Robin, Turdus migratorius
Storrs, Connecticut