Brian Bevan / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) preening on a grave stone, Bedfordshire, England, UK, June.

Kim Taylor / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) perched on stone owl. Surrey, England, June.

Nick Upton / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) feeding a chick which has just left its nestbox with a solitary bee, Cornwall, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) feeding a solitary bee to its chick which has just left the nestbox, Cornwall, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) perched in a Hawthorn tree (Crataegus sp.) with a Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) and another insect it has caught in its beak, Cornwall, UK, June.

Roger Powell / Red-spotted bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) singing from a Willow twig over breeding territory. Langbuness, Varanger fjord, Finmark, Norway

Roger Powell / Red-spotted bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) singing from a Willow twig over breeding territory. Langbuness, Varanger fjord, Finmark, Norway

Roger Powell / Red-spotted bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) singing from a Willow twig over breeding territory. Langbuness, Varanger fjord, Finmark, Norway

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis) female at water, Oman, September

Sam Hobson / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) at nest in wall, with chicks. Herefordshire, UK. June

Sam Hobson / Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) feeding chicks with meadow brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina) in wall, Herefordshire, UK. June

Andres M. Dominguez / Common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis), Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain, May.