Unusual Bird

[jonesy 111]

First of all i know very little about birds,i was beating the other day sitting in the motor waiting for a drive to start watching the birds in the trees,goldfinches,chaffinches couple bullfinches,there was a couple of orangey/red birds of similar size to chaffinches when facing away from me they had an orange stripe down there back was just wondering what they could be,didnt get any photos but keepers day this saturday so ill take my camera and hopefully get a pic.

[MAACCY 105]

They could be brambling they have orange on them

[jonesy 111]

I looked them up on net,but they had lot more orange than that of a brambling.

[MAACCY 105]

Maybe a linnet

[fireman 11,564]

I'd have said sounds like a Bramble finch as well, ,over to you Pete .

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

They'll be bramblings alright. Size. Company. Situation ..... Just tell me what else they could have been.

 

It's amazing, how f**ked up the memory can be. We might think we've observed and retained a photographic image of what we saw. It, often as not, goes to rat shit though.

 

Simple birders rules; Always expect it to be the more common of the possibilities. Unless you can garner irrefutable evidence, on the spot, that it's a similar looking rarity.

 

If there's more than one? It's almost certainly got no chance of being a rarity.

 

The mind / memory, as I said, plays tricks anyway. Bramblings have a white stripe down their backs. But, they have orange shoulders. Orange is more dominating to the eye. Wires cross and we have an orange back striped bird.

 

Sorry. No such bird exists in the British Isles. Bramblings do

 

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

It could been a lesser spotted tussock warbler

[Malt 379]

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/

[jonesy 111]

Cheers lads your probably right eyes do play tricks,ill still see if i can get a photo.