Blackcap Brambles

There was some quick movement in the bramble. Earlier on, I'd seen a now well grown juvenile Blackcap perched among the gamboge crinkled branches of the overhanging elder bush. It had dropped away out of sight before I could even raise the camera, but later on I glimpsed it again, preening on a thorny floricane. When viewed with binoculars, I could see another tail - and through the scope, the young bundle resolved into three birds - a male and two females judging by the subtle tone of their caps.