It's those Blackcaps again ... yesterday morning there was a mere 1 male Blackcap .... as opposed to the two we had on the three previous days . But I consoled myself with the thought that the "one" I was seeing might actually be those two, turning up at different times. BUT ... in the pm, a male Blackcap with a conspicuous white speck on its back made its appearance ....maybe one of the original two with temporary bit of fluff or a splodge of Blackcrap (!)(= Blackcap + crap) . Or maybe a totally new one. Oh, the possibilities ! We might have 3 ...we'll call them Bert, Dec and Splodger. Or we might only have two ... Bob+ its Blob and/or/if/maybe Dec + its Speck ? After that , Splodger turned up many times. With the unsplodged ones (Dec and/or Bert, but there might be more) ( who knows?) turning up too, but not all at the same time. And so far this morning only Splodger has turned up. So the "splodge" might well stay stuck to it for a good while . I felt quite dizzy with the sheer excitement of it all. It's amazing how complicated things can get if you really really watch ! ...and then, later in the day, after I'd been out doing some "proper" birding, an unsplodged one turned up several times, which could be the now-speckless Splodger, or Dec or Bert, or a new one. Cripes. I hope you are keeping track of all this vital and incredibly important stuff. What with it being International Graph Week, I ought to come up with some sort of graph for all that, but I couldn't really see how, so it's lucky it is NOT compulsory.
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