Anyone ID this for me?

[pxl8]

Hi,

Anyone able to offer an ID of the bird in the attached photo? Insects I'm ok with, birds... not a clue.

Thanks!

[Fourwings]

Nice imge - I'm pretty sure it's a Dunnock prunella modularis

[digi]

Yes it does look like a Dunnock, anyone disagree?

[Jonny]

Looks like a dunnock to me too...................Jon




Another shot of one, but not as good...........

[wildone]

I'll go with Dunnock also.

[Oy]

Absolutely Dicky Dunnock

[John]

Dunnock for sure.

[Kev Lewis]

Dunnock works for me

[Stuart]

Definitley a Dunnock.

[nightshade]

pxl8,try the gallery there are some excellent bird pics there includind the dunnock

[pxl8]

No need to phone a friend, I'll go with the audience. Dunnock, final answer

Thanks folks!

[carlj]

Definitely a dunnock!

[Alan]

It seems straightforward to me why their other name is Hedge Sparrows, but does anyone know where the name Dunnock originates?

Alan

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

I reckon its a Wren only kidding, definatly a dunnock

Don't know where dunnock comes from, the other name they are also called are Hedge Accentors

[henrya]

According to my dictionary dunnock is a diminutive of dun - greyish Brown, mouse coloured. Plausible, anyway.

henrya

[Tragus]

Another name for a Dunnock is 'Shuffle-wing'!
Well according to the book 'Birds of the Wayside and Woodland' (1955)
It's a rather old copy but has lots of interesting little facts, and I got it 2nd hand from the local bookshop

The extract that mentions the Shufflewing is as follows..

''In winter it jerks, with fussy little flicks of its wings, through the hedge-bottoms, now in the lower twigs, now peering under the fallen leaves on the fround, piping perpetual remarks. The flirts become a shiver- from which the bird get's its name Shuffle-wing, as it leaps or flits from twig to twig, but on the ground when feeing it hops.''

Jo