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I have just been watching some dunnocks and sparrows (house and tree) stumbling about in all of the soft snow. They've been hopping about looking for seeds and bread but taking awhile to take off. The poor things. x

Lynnie Nice photo :) I'm not quite sure if I have seen a Dunnock, I have that many sparrows in my garden, I may be confusing them with the Dunnock. they are very similar? Being new to this still learning. lol. Hope to recognise one soon :) Hi Lynnie. If you can't see the pink/red...

Here is Ken Croft's latest write-up: "The month started with two Green Sandpipers, one of which remained until the 4th, three Spotted Flycatchers were present on the 1st and a juvenile Bullfinch fed with the Linnet flock. The next day new migrants were a Lesser Whitethroat and a Grasshopper...

Afternoon forumites. Was pottering about the garden this morning, filling up the bird feeders and feeding Pip This is Pip she loves fruit I was just sitting down with a cuppa when along came Gobby, yes it is an unfortunate name, but one well deserved! Gobby does not sing the lovely...

Hello all, Is this a dunnock? I have one or sometimes two of these which visit the garden, normally in the late afternoon. They always feed on the ground, and stay close to cover. Sorry about the picture quality but my camera seems to be on the blink.

And I love Dunnocks! Yes please, a pin badge for this very underrated little bird

The last in a short series of diaries about birds on the reserve from Ken Croft. Hopefully, in the future we'll round of the previous month with one of his summaries..! "In a month with no real highlights here are the highlights. A Little Grebe dropped in on 30th, Grey Herons were regular...

Hello all, Below are some photos from last week at PB. First up was a Whitethroat Next which was a real treat a Nightingale. Not far away a Song Thrush After a shower this Dunnock had a manicure In the woods the Treecreepers were on the move On the...

Sitting in the garden looking so cute!

Sitting on fence post waiting to be fed

Hello All, Below are some photos of a very nice visit to Rye Meads. Willow Warbler Kingfisher Coot Chaffinch Blackcap Sedge Warbler Dunnock Shelduck time to reflect Mallard The end Have fun RR

A tiny baby dunnock sheltering in a shrub in our garden last summer.

Hi Nick Thanks for the very good photos of a lovely dunnock. I love to see them in my garden, but they don't appear every day. They were in the tree today wings flicking though. They are wonderful birds to watch. :-)

Hi Stephie and welcome to the RSPB Community It is rather early for Nightingales which are secretive birds at the best of times. I'm thinking Dunnock here which has a song that some people mistake for Robins and they are generally brown/grey, very common in gardens and happy to wander about in...

I thought this was a sparrow, but a facebook twitcher friend identified it for me as a dunnock!

He was on the apple tree and on the ground underneath foraging for food.

Watched a pair of these in the garden on 13th Jan.

A while ago, I mentioned that we had received the results of this years ‘Birds of Conservation Concern’ monitoring. I can now confirm that we have several species of birds on both the red and amber lists nesting on our reserve. Ken Proud, the volunteer that carried out the research, mapped...

After their usual summer break from my garden, the Dunnocks are back in! From about May to November, both they and my Robins go AWOL, and no matter what I do in my garden, it is only a fraction of the area they need for a breeding territory and they know they’re better off somewhere out in the...

Hi gardening fans. My name’s Mark and I work in the RSPB’s web team. I normally write on the ‘ Notes on Nature’ blog, but our gardening guru Adrian has asked me to put in a guest appearance to tell you what I’ve been up to in my garden lately. I’m representing the...

Dunnock absorbing the spring sunshine. New camera, new season.

Spring is in the air and this Dunnock is happy to sing it's heart out in the early spring sunshine.

wonderful watching the baby birds coming back with their parents outside my kitchen window