What's the difference between.... (1 Viewer)

[colonelboris]

What's the difference between....

The flight patterns of a dunnock and tree sparrow?
Just so I can completely exclude dunnock (if there's a big difference...)
Cheers!

 

[baphomet]

What's the difference between....

The flight patterns of a dunnock and tree sparrow?
Just so I can completely exclude dunnock (if there's a big difference...)
Cheers!

Sorry I can't help you there but i have just spent my lunch hour watching tree sparrows feeding in the barley field outside my office. They were quite vocal during their flying if that helps at all.

 

[Jane Turner]

Tree Sparrows look like House Sparrows, just a little trimmer are so noisy its comical . Sort of Finch-like. Dunnocks are hesitant, seldom get very high and bear a passing resemblance to Meadow Pipits if they do.

 

[colonelboris]

Ah, thanks!
I managed to see a sparrow-coloured back, pale face and a definite brown cap before it flew off with a slightly undulating flight to near the top of a 60 ft tree.
I didn't think it was a dunnock, but it's always handy to remove a few possible arguments against what you're fairly sure it is.

 

[KnockerNorton]

yeah, I'd go for Sparrow. A spooked Dunnock would tend to go low into cover, whereas a sparrow would tend to go high.