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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2011 at 17:02    Image of day on 07 Sep 2011

Blackcaps are new here this year. This female was in the top of a 3m high conifer well used as a singing post by many birds.


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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2011 at 06:14    Image of day on 01 Aug 2011

Its about 2 months since we saw the male and female blackcaps, and here is the female, probably collecting nesting material for a new nest, She is standing at the same place as the robin, but a day and a half later.


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Image Taken on 19 Apr 2011 at 18:45    Image of day on 15 May 2011

Chiffchaffs seem to be new addition to our menagerie. Note the dried out ground here - the ground is forming cracks along the paths we don't normally see until mid-summer. The last worthwhile rain was 2mm on 1 March - almost 60 days now.


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Image Taken on 10 Jun 2011 at 14:59    Image of day on 11 Jul 2011

Chiffchaffs have suddenly started nest building. A frantic hour or two saw a huge quantity of dead grass & other weeds taken into a bramble infested bush about 10m from the house.


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Image Taken on 28 Jun 2011 at 17:03    Image of day on 06 Aug 2011

Some of the back garden thistles are infested with aphids and this Chiffchaff knows what to do with them.


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Image Taken on 24 May 2011 at 18:10    Image of day on 05 Jul 2011

Our first 'Chiffchaff' (confirmed by the call even if it may be a sub-species) has rather taken our fancy. Here it is a montage of it calling from it's favourite perch on the mains wire between the house and the first concrete post.


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Image Taken on 27 May 2011 at 17:28    Image of day on 05 Jul 2011

3 days later a Chiffchaff stopped off at one of the camera sites collecting insects. Maybe we have a pair and they have nestlings. Hooray!


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