The titmice are very quick fliers and pretty wary, Jim. They circulate through here a couple of times per day though and I have learned to look out when I hear their chirps. I have birds of prey around all the time, too. Luckily my feeders are 10ft away from the big clump of bamboo which provides perfect cover for the songbirds. The bamboo stems are too close together for the hawks to get in between. So the little birds dash out, get seeds and then dash back to safety when the hawks are around.
I also have a plastic pellet gun that I take pot shots at the squirrels and hawks with. It doesn't hurt them but gets their attention. I had a big Cooper's hawk hanging out on the nearest power pole a while back, and managed to hit him with a pellet. He ruffled up then flew away, exactly the result I was hoping for. What I really wish is that the hawks would hunt more of the squirrels!
