Bird ID please...

[Phoebe]

Hi

I am just back from North Yorkshire where I spent Christmas and New Year. Whilst there I spotted this bird at the feeders in the garden area of the farm I was at. I got a pretty good look through the bins but then my b/f said he'd got a photo of it. I saw a very distinct red patch on the crown.

There is a Coaltit a Blackbird and a Bluetit in the photo too but what do you reckon the other one is?



Thanks

EDIT: I can crop it if that helps.

EDIT: It's a Great Tit not a Bluetit

[thebeard]

if it had a red crown then i can only assume it was a redpoll, but the photo's a little hard to make out!

[Phoebe]

I thought Redpoll and it's a first for me. There was a bird book in the caravan and someone had also recorded seeing one back in September '09. Thanks I will try to crop it to get a better pic there is more than one photo for me to look at.

[Phoebe]

Here is a cropped photo to help ID. If it is a Redpoll which one would it be? They are Red Status aren't they?

[thebeard]

looks like and is most likely to be a lesser redpoll, which is indeed a red data species. nice bird!

[big bill]

Hello Pheobe ,looking at the books I would say its the Lesser Redpoll - Carduelis caberet as the rest of the feathers are darker than the Mealy Redpoll who is a lot paler in the plumage also the Artic Redpoll who is similar to the Mealy

[Phoebe]

Thank you so much I had it down as a Lesser Redpoll I am chuffed to bits as it's a first for me!