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My Garden - Eccleston

We had the first blackcap of the year this afternoon on the sunflower hearts. Blackcaps are pretty much an annual visitor in the garden but have been a bit later than normal this year.
I tried in vain to get a photo of it using my camera on a remote shutter, but it refused to perch on the twig that I had my camera focussed on, the twig that it had been happily perching on for an hour or so before I decided to get the camera out!

Blackcap 1 male
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