Yes, they're still around the garden .... but ... I have another question about them ... You will remember that it was The King of Bryher who pointed out to ignorant me that those Blackcaps that overwinter here are NOT birds that are failing for one reason or another to return to Africa ...oh no ... they actually come to the UK from Germany/Austria where they spent the summer, and they come here for the winter due to it being, on average, milder than eastern Europe. But once our winter is over in the UK ... usually about June-ish (!) , what do they do then ? Do they go back to Eastern Europe ? Do they never go to Africa ? Were they, as a species, ever there ? I don't know. But I'm sure some of you do. And on a completely different tack .... I read a book recently that at one point referred to White's Thrush as the UFO bird ... because of its other-worldly call. "No bird utters a more eerie sound than the White's Thrush. On hearing its ghostly and plaintive one-note call, you will not immediately know that it is a bird. It sound as if it could just as easily be a person sighing deeply in the dark forests .. or a phantom bewailing its eternal mission to inhabit lonely places under cover of darkness " Well, I was dead keen to hear that !! BUT ... I could not find a video of it calling ...at all. These days it is very unusual NOT to find something on the net. So ..if you know where to find it, kindly let me know. A comment will do it ... or ..... seasidebarmail.com Now here's a blast from the past ..... I used to live near Llandegai ... but unfortunately never encountered that lot.. nothing like them ever hove into view ...... I wonder if they were the prototype for The Cardigans ?
Here's another of those " posts from the distant past" 11-places-i-dont-go.html
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