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Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Blackcap in Matera

It’s been a wonderful few days in Matera, but it’s time for us to go back to Rome. What an incredible place …

Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Brown-capped Blackcap

There’s a female Blackcap in this lichen-encrusted tree. Here’s what the male looks like, together with my thoughts on how ridiculous descriptions …

Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey

Blackcap

There’s a beautiful song coming from the bush in front of me. It’s the ‘Northern Nightingale’, the Blackcap: Blackcaps practice leap-frog migration: …

Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Blackcap in the trees

Walking around RSPB Ham Wall Nature Reserve in Somerset I can hear singing. It must be a warbler of some sort but …

Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

A Blackcap like a fine wine

I’m tickled by this description of a Blackcap’s song: “The Blackcap’s song lacks the Blackbird or Thrush-like phrases of the Garden Warbler …

Blackcap - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Leap-frogging Blackcaps

There’s a Blackcap in the tree. I can hear its alarm call and then I see it; it’s a female. It looks …