Hahahaha! Cheers gents!

After sending him more pics etc etc, I think we have now settled on a male Reed Bunting in winter plumage!

You could call it "Potter's Puzzling Profiles"

What about Chinese Rain Quail, or one of the other non-native quails kept to tidy up aviary floors?

Fantastic - is this the replacement for Mr McKerchar's Mystery Bird Competition (rather than some obscure dodgy photo, an obscure dodgy description) - I'm in !!!!!

I'm going for Siberian Thrush ????









(apologies Matt - can't think of anything obvious)

Escaped Java Sparrow - if it was a ground feeder escaped California Quail???

A non birding friend of mine has tried to describe a bird to me. He described it as having:-

'A black cap/head with a white strip, rest of body was brown and grey.'

I immediately thought, coal tit, until he said:-

And the size of a starling, and was not as agile as the tits around the feeder!

I tried to vision what a non birder would see or not see and sent him pics of Redwing, Fieldfare, House Sparrow, Long Tailed Tit, Black Cap etc with no luck.

He then sent me a pic of a White Crowned Sporrow and said, like that but without the outer white strips!

I then sent Reed Bunting with no luck again!

So I am wondering if you guys have an idea what he could have seen!

Cheers!