Blackcap
£25.00
A lot of lies about blackcaps, from the ‘Lies About Birds’ series. (Scroll down to read the text.) Illustrated with a poor photograph of a paper bird I have made out of old RSPB magazines.
A4 print, mounted (and put in a cellophane bag to prevent escapes).
(Please note that, regretfully, I don’t send work outside of the UK.)
1 in stock
“The wild song of a blackcap bursts out of them with joyful abandon, deafening our quieter resident birds and often rendering them briefly silent, usually in shock at what they’ve just heard. Blackcaps are the gossips, the spreaders of unfounded rumour, the first to chattily pass on the news. They don’t mean any harm by it, they just can’t help themselves. You will hear them rather than see them as they like to eavesdrop from good cover. Once they have caught a whiff of gossip they will immediately forget they were hiding and broadcast it at the top of their voices. Then feel bad about it. You may hear them burbling under their breath afterwards as they give themselves a firm talking to about behaving better. It doesn’t last. Thank goodness for that.”
