Hi
I'm new to this blog, have registered for big garden watch but am unsure of the identity of our little garden visitor. It could be a dunnock, looks like a smaller robin with a silvery chest instead, has very little patterns on her back that are characteristics of a dunnock. Someone told me it might be a silver breast??!!
It comes every winter with a fellow robin and can be found on the ground as well as inside our bird feeder; very shy.
Would appreciate any ideas. H
Hello,
If not a Dunnock then maybe a female Blackcap. There isn't a British bird called a silver breast - or even a non-British bird as far as I know :) Here's a female Blackcap:
and here's a Dunnock:
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I would say it was a female blackcap. I have two male black caps visiting my garden daily, but so far this year no female. When in bright light I find that the blackcaps do look silvery/white.
Hi all. Actually after long observation the bird looks like a garden warbler or a chiffchaff. It vanishes so quickly that I get no chance of taking a picture. But they eyes are definitely of either of the above birds. Time is the problem. Do these birds stay in Scottland in winter?
I have a cypress leylandii hedge and it hides itself in there