Spring has arrived and that means the blue tits will be breading in the bird box in our gardens. They are one of the most beautiful songbirds in the UK and one of my favorite, so I have curated some vintage blue tit drawings.

The blue tit is a small songbird in the tit family. It is a delicate little bird, weighing in at around 11g that’s about half the size of a robin.

Often thought to be the UK’s most attractive garden bird, the blue tit is extremely colorful, with a bright blue cap, white face, black stripes across the eyes, bright yellow breast and blue, green and white wings.

Blue Tit Facts

• In the UK the blue tit is typically found in deciduous woodland, parks, gardens and even in the center of towns. In fact, some 98% of British gardens report blue tits in winter.
• The bird will nest in any suitable hole in a tree, wall, or stump, or an artificial nest box. Often they compete with other birds such as house sparrows or great tits for a nesting site.
• When nesting in boxes, blue tits often return to the same box year after year.
• In fact, British blue tits are strictly resident, seldom moving far from where they hatched. Studies have shown that only 1.2% of the population moves more than 20km during the winter.
• It is estimated by the RSPB that there are 3,535,000 breeding pairs of blue tits in the UK.
• During the incubation period, female blue tits perform most. The male feeds the female during this time.
• Blue tits are social birds. They can be spotted in flocks of up to 20 strong and are often seen feeding alongside other bird species, including goldcrests and great tits.
• Not just a pretty bird blue tits are a gardener’s friend. No other species of birds destroy more coccids and aphids, the worst enemy of many garden plants.
• Blue tits also eat seeds and in British urban areas have evolved the ability to digest milk and cream. The birds learned to pierce the foil on the top of doorstop milk bottles to steal the cream.

The Vintage Blue Tit Drawings

Just click on the title above the blue tit drawing you want and the image should open in a new tab in your browser. You can download this straight to your device or print them straight away.

These blue tits drawings would like wonderful framed but they are also great for spring crafts especially decoupaged crafts such as this real egg wreath or these tin can wind chimes.

1.African Blue Tit

This first drawing is actually of an African Blue Tit it is from the book “A History of the Birds of Europe ” by Dresser, H. E.; Dresser, H. E. et al. Published between 1871-1881.

2. Blue Tit And Egg

This blue tit illustration was published in 1898 in A Pocket atlas of birds from France, Switzerland and Belgium.

3. 1909 British Blue Tit

This delightful Blue Tit painting is from the book “British Birds and Their Eggs” by Boraston, John Maclair.

4. British Ornithology

This pretty bird print is from the book “British ornithology: being the history, with a coloured representation, of every known species of British birds, Vol.1” 1821 by George Graves.

5. 1869 Blue Tit Drawing

This beautiful bird is by the Dutch Bird Illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans.

6. Blue Tits and Masked Crimson Tanager

This bird illustration is from the well known French natural history dictionary “Dictionnaire Universel d’histoire Naturelle” (1849).

7. 1868 Blue Tits Painting

This painting is from the book “Lettres à Julie sur l’ornithologie“.

8. Trio of Tits

This trio of tit drawings is from the collection of Iconographia Zoologica and the University of Amsterdam.

9. Duo of Brids

Two more tit illustrations from the collection of Iconographia Zoologica and the University of Amsterdam.

If you like bird illustrations then check out some of the other bird illustrations collections on Pictureboxblue, such as the parrot paintings of Edward Lear or these beautiful Heron prints.

For other themed prints check out these daffodil prints or these art nouveau flower prints.