Could somebody please help identify this bird. I am very new to watching the birds and this forum and probably making a big fool of myself, but here goes. I have a dunnock and this bird in the picture which always seem to appear not too long after each other, for some ground food but they will not eat together, they seem to scare each other off, he's a bit smaller than the dunnock too. I did wonder if it's a meadow pipit but am not too confident in my identity skills.
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Hi BBB, welcome.
It looks like a Dunnock to me,
Hi and welcome to the forum. Your photo isn't showing for me so I can't help you on an i.d. right now but I will have another look later.
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Squirrel Hi and welcome to the forum. Your photo isn't showing for me so I can't help you on an i.d. right now but I will have another look later.
Hi BBB.
Welcome aboard the forum.
I am a beginner with ID, but it is more speckled than my dunnocks
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Sparrow Hi BBB. Welcome aboard the forum. I am a beginner with ID, but it is more speckled than my dunnocks
Hi Sparrow,
Yes the dunnock that I get seems to be a lot plainer underneath than this one.
Hi,
It's a Dunnock :))
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I agree, it's a dunnock. The grey head and patterning on the back gives it away. Dunnocks are territorial so will drive away intruders. The level of speckling depends on age - if I remember rightly youngsters have more speckling than adults.
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Hi Bishy-barney-bee.I'm fairly certain the bird is a young dunnock. They're great little birds but very shy. Although I think this adds to their character. Nice picture.Paul
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juvenile dunnocks are really brown and scruffy, with streaks on the breast. They lose that plumage and generally resemble adults by late autumn.
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Another vote for Dunnock here too :o)
Although 'my' Dunnock is considerably more grey than this one. Then again he breaks the rules anyway as he's not shy! He won't even bat an eyelid if the Woodpigeon crash lands next to him on the feeding station.
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Sorry to be the old one out but this don't look like a Dunnock to me? Well at least not the Dunnocks I get in my garden. I have a few who have been with me a few years and are one of my favourite little birds. It's too streaky for a start.
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Hi Kezmo,
You aren't on your own! This little bird is nothing like my dunnocks.
This ones causing confusion. If its not a Dunnock do we have any other suggestions as to what it might be
Well I've been looooooking through me booooook and I wondered if it wasn't Lark-ish? there's the streakiness and barring across the eye but the wings are giving me jip, they're not exactly the same. Me other thought (bet you wondered what the noise was!) was as originally thought pipit-ish. However with all my ish'es in place I still don't really have a clue only that I don't think it's a Dunnock!