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Female Blackcap
Blackcaps are quite chunky birds, about the size of Chaffinches with fine dark beaks.
Both sexes are mostly grey in colour and a best distinguished by the colour of their cap. Adult males displays are black cap that gives the species its common name, while females have a chestnut- brown cap.
Its delightful fluting song has earned it the name "northern nightingale"
Isn't she beautiful!
From my archive..
Female Blackcap
Blackcaps are quite chunky birds, about the size of Chaffinches with fine dark beaks.
Both sexes are mostly grey in colour and a best distinguished by the colour of their cap. Adult males displays are black cap that gives the species its common name, while females have a chestnut- brown cap.
Its delightful fluting song has earned it the name "northern nightingale"
Isn't she beautiful!
From my archive..