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Garden bird, What kind is it?
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Please help, i live beside aberdeen, and have noticed a new bird feeding in my garden. it is the size of a yellow tit or sparrow,it is metallic grey in colour all over, except for a black top part to his head. (it looks like a jewish cap but black in colour) this is the first year i have seen it. also is there a website that you can go to, and describe the markings of a bird and it shows the species by the description. i dont know much of birds but they are feeding happily in my garden and enjoy watching them thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.sounds like a blackcap! It will be a male- the females have a brown cap. Have a look at http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/b/blackcap/ index.asp
I shall beg to differ also!! THough mainly migratory blackcaps as well as many other members of the warbler family are increasingly overwintering in many parts of the UK including scotland- not just the south coast of england. Take a look at this pic of one in Edinburgh in Dec 2003. So it could easily be an overwintering one- and with the weather we have been having lately could just as easily be an early arrival.