Anyone any idea

[cmcmck]

Who this little chap is? He's been visiting our front area for some days. Smaller than a sparrow or dunnock but bigger than a wren with an insectivore's beak and beautiful regular markings. Obviously European and a British known species as that's where we are.







Update

Thanks to the_godiva  for a lead. The little visitor is a female little bunting according to our bird recognition books.

Our gravel covered front area obviously contains lots of things to her liking. :o)

 

Comments

[violsva]

Is it a juvenile sparrow or something? I wouldn't expect it at this time of year, but I am not an ornithologist.

[cmcmck]

It's not a juvenile if the plumage in anything to go by and also way too colourful (in that brown sort of way) for either of our local sparrow species. Again wrong beak type too.