Editor of Year of Great Tit science news University of Tartu bird ecology researcher  Marko Mägi, marko.magi@ut.ee 
Translation Liis

Only recently the ability of great tits to memorise the location of food hoards of other birds by observing their behaviour was mentioned among the Bird of the Year science news (see note  here). It is known that great tits are better at solving tasks requiring spatial memory than blue tits or marsh tits.

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Squirrel in snowfall at the end of January

I live in Tallinn, in a block of flats in Mustamäe. To my great joy squirrels have started to visit us. Sometimes there are even several of them. We have put some nuts or acorns on the windowsill. It is interesting to observe them from the other side of the window.  They don’t notice me and I get the opportunity to photograph them at a very close distance.