Blackcap

[mothhawk]

I saw a blackcap for the very first time last week, and it was in my little garden! Had to get the bird book out to be sure, as I thought they were only summer visitors. And I've just seen him again today, on the fat balls I've hung out. Absolutely fantastic!

[Jeanied]

They are gorgeous aren't they - I was so pleased to find a pair of them regularly visiting my garden over the last couple of years- and some juveniles- the bird food makes a big difference! Mine like the berry suet strands

[Thelma Sanders]

They regularly over-winter here, I love to see them - pretty little birds

I thought the other day............. that one is short and fat for a Blackcap. Then I realised it was a Coaltit

They are more rare than a Blackcap in my garden.

[mothhawk]

Oh, and a wren has taken over the bluetit's nest box for the winter.

I'm hoping the bluetit is sleeping in one of the two other boxes - I can't see those boxes so well at dusk which is when the birds whizz in to bed.

[Jeanied]

Just been outside to see if the blackcap is there - only to find a little group of bluetits instead. I thought, that is a small great tit with them - but it was a coal tit! Lovely to see one in my garden!

[The Skirt]

Blackcap - sings more beautifully than A Nightingale in MHO

I never saw, nor heard a Blackcap until I came to live here at The Funny Farm, and when I did, I heard THE most melodic sound by our side gate, stopped digging, edging towards the sound, until I could actually SEE where the sound was coming from.

I'd never seen that bird before, and never heard that sound, so I looked it up in my book.
Male Blackcap, woo hoo!....female brown cap on top of the head joined him much later.
And they've been visiting, and singing in our back garden now for at least 3-4 years.
Never yet discovered where they're nesting, nor seen their young or them feeding them in our garden, more's the pity.
But feel really blessed to have them so at home here.

[Gillykat]

Yes, Blackcaps overwinter a lot more nowadays than they used to. I even saw a female in December on the feeders just outside the hide at Cresswell Pond nature reserve on the Northumberland coastline.

I love the song of this bird and cannot wait to hear his wonderful tune once more in the coming weeks. I'm so lucky to have an allotment next door to Hulne Park which has a good population of these delightful warblers

[hellybore]

I saw a blackcap in my garden last week, very excited as usually only get sparrows and pigeons!

[brownfingers]

I've not had any blackcaps this year so far, but I had a male visitor last year.

[Scoot]

In all my years of watching birds, I still have never seen a Blackcap can you believe.

[Kleftiwallah]

Haven't seen our Blackcap for some days now.

Cheers, Tony.