A blackcap on the feeder

We sat in the garden this afternoon once loving not having to be busy after two days at the Shambles Market Woodpeckers took to her hammock on the far side of the patio table and I sat in the shade of the neighbour's elder tree hanging over the fence.

I heard some rustling and then spotted a bird deep within the mass of leaves above the wooden fence. I had my camera beside me and prepared to watch it come to the feeder, a likely outcome.

I was delighted to see it was a male blackcap, which I'd been seeing occasionally in recent days. We had two pairs of blackcaps this spring but I thought they had left. Whjat was most surprising was that it ventured top the sunflower feeder despite Helena lying only three feet away in her hammock and with me obviously present with my camera pointing at it. The red flowers are hanging down from a shoot of the abutilon which is in a large pot on the table.