jape
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and now my first ever blackcap! i have been watching them in ones, twos and threes in nearby sycamore treetops for a while fussing after some insect life or other as they do not touch the few seeds left. difficulty was the lack of colour perception when silhouetted but recently since i raised a bird table into the higher level at 3m they have come down into garden and today i got close enough view to identify a male. grey rather than brown plumage on back and wings, dark legs and a definite black cap. on first impression slimmer and perhaps a touch smaller than sparrows. are they likely to be anything else? they seem to dart across the park from nearby copses to my bordering lines of mature trees rather than hedges.the tits that are also capped play around singly near the trunks not in the tops or tips. these birds have caps but no stripe.
if behaviour helps, they certainly tend to visit after a couple of hours of sunup in ones and twos totalling never more than four or five in treetops and branch tips for an hour or so back and forth whereas the sparrows flock in the hedges or sometimes the lower branches as do the tits all day, then they dart off alone or in a pair back to the woodier areas.
if behaviour helps, they certainly tend to visit after a couple of hours of sunup in ones and twos totalling never more than four or five in treetops and branch tips for an hour or so back and forth whereas the sparrows flock in the hedges or sometimes the lower branches as do the tits all day, then they dart off alone or in a pair back to the woodier areas.
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