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Originally Posted by Kate
Dave Hill:
On May 27, 9:06Â*am, Kate wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone help identify this bird seen in the garden? I find it hard
to tell all the brown birds
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I think it's too big to be a wren - would it be a sparrow or a dunnuck?
Thanks!
Kate xx
sparrow
Thanks!
He was a cheeky chappie, seemed to pluck up a huge number of worms from
round the borders - then flew between all the trees & shrubs, perching on
a branch of each for a second or two before moving on. Don't know if he
was looking for little grubs or beetles on the leaves - if he found any,
I hope he ate them up for me  |
Sparrow - but there are house sparrows (usually) and tree sparrows (occasionally). Males and females are different, so you've got four possible varieties there!
Dunnocks don't have the pattern on the head - they have smooth grey/"slate blue" head and shoulders. Once you've identified one, you'll see the striping on the back is different too - to my mind it's more delicate. Males and female dunnocks are identical.
Anything you can't recognise is formally classified as an LBJ "little brown job" ;-)
Other LBJs are - female chaffinches, with white stripes in their wings, baby robins, brown and spotted, and baby goldfinches, with yellow stripes in the wings.
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