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Head for Blueberry Hill for U-picks of 15 blueberry varieties, raspberries, blackcaps, blackberries and grapes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

We love heading into the hedgerows to pick blackcaps, from which I make jam or pie.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2021

Songbirds are going berserk trying to impress one another and summer visitors such as blackcaps have arrived to set up nest.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2020

Every day, people visit by the thousand: runners, outdoor swimmers, tourists, bird-lovers on the trail of whitethroats and blackcaps in the bushes or goldfinches and kestrels in the trees.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020

Blackbirds, thrushes, blackcaps, goldfinches, chaffinches, sing from the first peep of dawn till the last trace of daylight has died out, and then the nightingales begin and keep it up till dawn again.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry