@[email protected] solved it, “tufted titmouse” is the name :)

Looks like it, thank you!

[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception to the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell’em!

Those birds are so beautiful (and, seen from Europe, exotic). (No shade to the raccoon.)

What’s the name of the lowest one, the small one with the crest?

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

Some other German ones:

Nick for Niklas and Nick/Niko for Nikolaus
Matze for Martin
Sepp for Josef
Kathi, Katta and Kadda for Katharina and Kathrin
Alex for Alexander and Alexandra
Vicki for Viktoria
Schorsch (not spoken with an English accent) for Georg
Bert for Berthold
Basti and Sebi for Sebastian
Gabi for Gabriele
Siggi for Siegfried and Sieglinde
Uschi for Ursula

And of course English nicknames for German names, e.g. Jules for Julian, Dave for David.

As for the clock face, a 12 hour face is much easier to read at a glance or from a distance.

Everyone has a plan until they get stabbed in the belly by a smaller opponent.