Mystery bird

[Greenmillie64]

Rare visit to garden beneath feeder ... size is smaller than blackbird dlightly bigger than sparrow. Ground feeding, black triangular markings on neck, predominately pale cream with dark stripes on wing with some flacks of brown. Small pointed beak.

Damnit - camera was at work.

It was not a sparrow, redpoll (too long in body to be a redpoll) starling, bramblng (had no reds at all), linnet and was the wrong shape to be a warbler.

Did not have awhite throat.

[Kingfisher]

Reed buntings sometimes visit feeding stations in winter and mostly feed on the ground...

http://www.finepetportraits.co.uk/re...rd-photos.html

[Greenmillie64]

hmmm could be a bunting but seemed a biy creamier underneath and had very noticible dlack neck marks.

Was bunting shaped though... lol

[Dave Appleton]

When you say small pointed beak do you mean fine (like a Dunnock for example) or conical (like a finch)? If the former then Meadow Pipit is all that springs to mind - not typically a garden bird but they do occur occasionally in some gardens.

[Greenmillie64]

Originally Posted by Dave Appleton

When you say small pointed beak do you mean fine (like a Dunnock for example) or conical (like a finch)? If the former then Meadow Pipit is all that springs to mind - not typically a garden bird but they do occur occasionally in some gardens.

like a dunnock