Thread: garden bird ID
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Old 01-06-2012, 08:38 PM
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Martin lid wrote:
Maybe it was just a sparrow. :-)

or a dimmock/dunnock
British Garden Birds - Dunnock

Ah, could well be. Well called. Or, browsing the site, perhaps
a siskin? They have the shape and the yellower tone and the
stumpier beak, but don't seem to have the markings.

Good site, though.
Look also for female reed bunting. They look like sparrows but a bit wrong. I don't see them often enough to know their range of behaviour.

I may be wrong, but I thought siskins were around more in the winter.
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