It’s gone!

We had snow this week, on Thursday, and I had hoped to post some good video footage. Unfortunately it snowed so hard in the morning making a very fuzzy film! Then it thawed, by lunchtime when the light was better, spoiling the garden snowscape. I briefly posted the film but disappointingly I felt it didn’t quite capture the magic.

Tonight I was looking through my digital camera and found I had attempted to capture photographs of the snow scene from my window. Dizzy me – I forgot I had taken photographs! As the snow, for now, is gone I thought I would post the pic above to give you an idea of the magic. I hope to catch a Robin on video, traditionally seen with snow, for a future post.

It’s gone! The snow is not the only thing that is now gone from my garden. Very disappointingly I have to report that I have had no sightings of any Blackcaps in my garden since Tuesday. I haven’t seen a female for 10 days but now the male has not been seen. I am really disappointed that we couldn’t keep this bird for longer as it appeared so at home in my garden – feeding with the finches and other birds quite happily. I began to see it rather like the robin – it popped in and out in a similar way. I don’t quite know how to explain the Blackcap exit from my garden – the books suggest it is not a sociable bird but yet it joined in!

Blackcap videos, shown below, I wish to show again. The Blackcaps may be gone but I will in no way forget their visits to my garden. I hope we will see them return. What changed on Tuesday - see the post http://shirlsgardenwatch.blogspot.com/2007/01/invasion-of-starlings.html . I wonder if the activity in my garden, then, was responsible for the Blackcaps exit - or the cold temperatures that followed.





For further information on the Blackcap follow the link below:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/b/blackcap/index.asp

The photograph shown above was taken in my garden on January 18th 2007.

The first video shown above, the Blackcap male, was taken in my garden on January 1st 2007. The second video, the Blackcap female with her chestnut brown cap, was taken in my garden on January 6th 2007.

If you have enjoyed looking at these videos you may like to see more – click on the link at the top of the right column where you will see further links direct to all videos published in previous posts.