ECHO 2/1/06

Female Blackcap returning to the garden to feed, usually on the suet and berry feeder and primarily before 8.30am whilst it is still quite dark. She has a distinctive reddish-brown cap (despite her name, the male dictates that) and almost green body plumage and a very pale breast, a giveaway amid the Blue and Great Tits alongside her. She returns and departs regularly.

‘Chronology protection conjecture’ – that Nature will somehow always find a way to stop intelligent beings from manipulating matter and energy in order to travel in time. Presumably that means that Man will have a go!