The sun came out and I thought that it may give me a good chance to improve on my Whitethroat photos. As I stood watching and waiting I began to have a better understanding of what was going on. For starters, the Whitethroat has now been joined by, or attracted a mate seen acting furtively at the bottom of a bramble. She is acting the way I know that Whitethroats do and is really hard to get a good look at. Meanwhile he is still singing away and giving really good views.

As I stood watching this Blackcap came and joined in which was a bit of a surprise and he lingered long enough for a photo.

From time to time the Whitethroat male changed perches and I still haven’t managed to get a good shot of him, close and low down. Not the same with Sparrows though, even though they are nowhere near as common as they used to be they will always let you get quite close. We took them so much for granted!