Tasty item on the bird table (6)
I believe the answer is:
titbit
'bird table' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'tasty item on the' is the wordplay.
'tasty' becomes 'tib' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'item' becomes 'it' (I've seen this in other clues).
'on' means one lot of letters goes inside another (as in clothing 'on' a person).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'tib'+'it'='tibit'
'tibit' going around 't' is 'TITBIT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for titbit that I've seen before include "choice morsel" , "Pleasing scrap of gossip" , "Choice piece, food or gossip" , "Delicacy" , "Small item of gossip" .)