Identifying Garden Birds - Help please

Mon 30 Jan 2023, 19:07

Very unlikely to be a yellowhammer unless you live very near to a field. Here is a Siskin 

Mon 30 Jan 2023, 18:47 (last edited on Mon 30 Jan 2023, 22:16)

 Yes

Mon 30 Jan 2023, 17:26

Thank you everyone. All very helpful.  We will continue to look at the birds and photos etc.  Siskins had been our best guess. Still exploring yellowhammers.

Size - around the size of goldfinches.  Sometimes some of them seem a bit bigger, some seem to be more browny and some more greeny, hence we wondered if it is two species! Other observations - they have a bright yellow streak along the edge of the wing - when their wings are closed they form a dark, almost, grid shape pattern where the tail meets the back.

Sun 29 Jan 2023, 18:49

How big are they? Siskin most likely.

Sun 29 Jan 2023, 14:00

I've found this helpful:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/

Fri 27 Jan 2023, 16:00

Yellowhammers? 

Fri 27 Jan 2023, 15:55

Have you tried looking up a picture of siskins? They have yellow on them and usually arrive in a small flock.

Fri 27 Jan 2023, 15:16

We have 1 or 2 types of birds on our feeder (browny/greeny/yellowy), which we cannot identify, despite looking in several books. They seem to come in a small flock. Is there anyone who is knowledgeable about birds and willing to help us? We have identified greenfinches, goldfinches, black caps, and coal tits, as well as more common garden birds, but not these.

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