Coal tit and other names

Still stuck inside, so the Coal Tit is keeping me company (and a couple of Greenfinches that have turned up today). The Coal Tit is helpful for photography, as he calls from a nearby tree for a minute of two, giving time to prepare the camera.
Another of my treasured books is All the Birds of the Air, by Francesca Greenoak, who has dug out local names for UK birds. For Coal Tit, she found Black Cap (Shropshire, Stirlingshire), Black Ox-Eye (Forfar), Coaly Hood (Scotland generally), Little Blackcap (Yorkshire) and Coalmouse (Ireland) - all reasonably similar.

For some birds, however, there is a wide variety of local names, some of which are a sad loss to our language - Long-Tailed Tits were also called Ragamuffins, Mumruffins, Long-Tailed chitterlings, Poke Bags or Bum Barrels, the last two apparently derived from the shape of their woven nests.


Postscript - two Coal Tits seen approaching the feeder together this morning - oh joy!