TIT’S DAY

November 12 is the Tit’s Day. On this day, residents of different localities of the country prepare for the meeting of “winter visitors” – the birds that hibernate in our area: tits, goldfinches, bullfinches, jays, redpolls, and waxwings. People prepare feeding for them, including the “Tit’s sweets”: unsalted bacon, unroasted pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds; they make and hang the bird feeders.

In the folk calendar November 12 is the Day of Remembrance of the Orthodox Saint Zinovy ​​Sinichnik. According to folk saying, it is at this time tits, anticipating the cold coming soon, flew out of the forest closer to human habitation and waited for people’s help. Our ancestors noticed that if the flocks of birds appeared near the house, it meant that frost is coming soon. Also, on this day our sharp-eyed forefathers predicted weather according to special signs, if tit whistles, it is to clear day, if tit peeps, it is to a night frost, if a lot of tits are gathering on bird feeders, it is to a blizzard and snowfall. The name “tit” comes not from the blue plumage of the birds, as many may think. That name they got for sonorous songs, reminiscent of a bell chime.

The workers of Devyaterninskoye Forestry held a campaign “Meet the birds in winter” in the daycare center of Devyaternya Village. They told about the benefits of the birds and together with kids hung bird feeders made by kids’ parents. The workers of Krasnoborskoye District Forestry also held a campaign  with the kids from the orphanage.