Bird ID help please

[Mousie]

This odd bird appeared in the garden briefly, looking bewildered and as though it had just been dragged through a hedge backwards - I wondered if it had been in a fight.
I've usually only got blue tits,finches, nuthatches and woodpeckers that come to feed, and it wasn't any of those. Bigger than a blue tit but smaller than a blackbird, sort of dumpy shaped - short wings and tail and a round body. Also had a very ruffled appearance round it's head!!
It was a uniform brown colour - as far as I could see, that's why it stood out so much against the others.

[Wild-Woman]

Perhaps your bird had been roughed up by a cat. Greenfinch?

[Dogghound]

Dunnock?

[Mousie]

Hmm - had a look at greenfinches -if they are the same size as chaffinches, bull finches etc, it was bigger than that.
No cats here, mine are not allowed out cos of the birds - but I do seem to have a lot of fights between birds going on - one of the nuthatches was killed by something that wasn't a predator - and I still have two nuthatches - so I wondered??
The tits scrap so much they sometimes fall on my head when I am hanging up new food!

[Mousie]

It might have been a dunnock - the body shape is right for that - and could have looked darker because it was all fluffed up. What size are they??

[earthdragon64]

Female Blackbird?

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Mousie

It might have been a dunnock - the body shape is right for that - and could have looked darker because it was all fluffed up. What size are they??

Abit smaller than a robin, although if it was fluffed up would have made it look bigger.

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by earthdragon64

Female Blackbird?

My thought too.

Regards, Chris

[Beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Dogghound

Abit smaller than a robin, although if it was fluffed up would have made it look bigger.

My first thought was in fact female robin.

Ian

[thebeard]

females have red breasts too!