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
“Chiffchaffs may announce the arrival of Spring, but Blackcaps celebrate all of it with charming abandon. Their ringing song bursts out of them with unsuppressed joy, deafening our quieter resident birds and often rendering them briefly silent. Blackcaps are the gossips, the spreaders of unfounded rumour, the first to chattily pass on the news. They like gardens because they can eavesdrop on gardeners. A Blackcap exploding into song has just seen an incompatible pair of Dunnocks making a nest and can’t wait to tell you. Apparently brash, they are gently affectionate. In courtship the male brings the female a blade of grass, said to be something to do with a poem by Brian Patten.”
