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January 27th 2010 11:22
After studying both the live creature and a few books on the bird, I have learned some facts concerning the blackcap. Hopefully, I shall also have some photos to share in a month or so, when I can get them off my camera and onto a computer that I have yet to purchase.
Blackcaps come from the same family as the warbler. They are circa 14cm in length and make their nest from dried grasses. Their nests are situated in brambles and similar shurbs with undergrowth.
Blackcaps do not only eat the berries on my father's looks-dead shrub - but also enjoy insects and flies in their diet, as well as the berries from other trees and shrubs. Whilst a few decades ago they were rarely seen other than during summer in Britain, they are now winter visitors as well - as proved by my own sighting!
Blackcaps come from the same family as the warbler. They are circa 14cm in length and make their nest from dried grasses. Their nests are situated in brambles and similar shurbs with undergrowth.
Blackcaps do not only eat the berries on my father's looks-dead shrub - but also enjoy insects and flies in their diet, as well as the berries from other trees and shrubs. Whilst a few decades ago they were rarely seen other than during summer in Britain, they are now winter visitors as well - as proved by my own sighting!
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