Bird Identification Help Please.

[Bayleaf]

This poor little character flew into our greenhouse just now, with fatal results. Can anybody identify it please? It's about the size of a sparrow or greenfinch. I'm used to both in the garden, but this one's very mottled on its back.

[DaveH]

This poor little character flew into our greenhouse just now, with fatal results. Can anybody identify it please? It's about the size of a sparrow or greenfinch. I'm used to both in the garden, but this one's very mottled on its back.

I thought that the mottling was common on youger (juvenile) greenfinches which they lost with age.

It is late spring, there are a lot of young, hatched only a few months ago birds around at present so could it be a young greenfinch?

Other colours in your picture seem to indicate this.

A young, inexperienced bird probably hadn't learnt how to avoid greenhouses like an adult bird would have.

The glass, like a window to a domestic bird, is almost invisible to them in certain light.

[SteveHB]

The bill is the wrong shape for it to be a finch

I thik it's a juvenile robin

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[DaveH]

The bill is the wrong shape for it to be a finch

I thik it's a juvenile robin

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Those long thin legs do look very Robin like.

[Lyn 1]

Those long thin legs do look very Robin like.

I agree a young robin. They do not get their red breasts until they are older.

Lyn

[DaveH]

I agree a young robin. They do not get their red breasts until they are older.

Lyn

That's 3 of us so it looks like its a Robin.

Juvenile Robin

Adult Robin

Robin the boy wonder

[Bayleaf]

That's 3 of us so it looks like its a Robin.

Juvenile Robin

Adult Robin

Robin the boy wonder

Picture 1 looks pretty conclusive, thanks everyone.

I haven't seen number 3 in our garden, but you never know what the cat's going to bring in next.

(Just in case anyone's worried, our cat is 19yrs old, suffers with a thyroid problem and like me and the missus, is arthritic, so there's no danger to the wildlife, unless they're suicidal and throw themselves at her!)

[DaveH]

Picture 1 looks pretty conclusive, thanks everyone.

I haven't seen number 3 in our garden, but you never know what the cat's going to bring in next.

(Just in case anyone's worried, our cat is 19yrs old, suffers with a thyroid problem and like me and the missus, is arthritic, so there's no danger to the wildlife, unless they're suicidal and throw themselves at her!)

You don't really want number 3 in your garden.

This Robin is always accompanied by a bat.

Bats are a protected protected species.

If you get one of those on your property it either stays there are you have to go through a hell of a lot of beuracratic red tape to have it moved.

The bat that comes with the Robin

The protected bat, hard to get removed.