Hello,
Saw a bird today and I’m stuck between a female chaffinch or a female greenfinch. Definitely was a type of finch; it had the slimmer distinctive shape of a greenfinch but didn’t have any yellow/green and had a plain beige head/beak with streaky wings. It came on its own, stood on a fence and left pretty quickly. Any ideas? Thanks
Hi ellis as Robbo said sometimes its diffcult to tell what you saw without a picture.
Female chaffis and greenies have distinctive wingbars as shown below so your description doesnt really match. Lighting plays a big part in tricking our eyes as aswell.
Only suggestion I have is a dunnock ?
Hopefully you can get a pic tomorrow
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
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