New Bird in garden

[Digeroo]

There is a bird in the garden I do not recognise.  It about the size of a blackbird but mostly grey and brown.  It holds its tail up.  The most notable feature is that it has two brown patches on its pale chest, so I have nick naked it the bikini bird or Barbara for short.

The last time I had an unidentified bird iin the garden t was a Temminck's Tragopan.  So this one might be an exotic as well.

My first thought was a fieldfare but it is not big enough and no spotty frontage and they do not hold their tails up.

[Digeroo]

[star]

I was going to suggest Fieldfare till I read the end of your post. Nothing springs to mind with that description, not that Im an ornithologist at all. Still learning as I go along too, I'll be very intersted to know what it was if you find out. Good luck! ;D

[green lily]

A wryneck seems to have the patches but the tail could be wrong  ???

[claybasket]

I never new what a fielfare looked like,  as I thought we had one a brown bird about the size of a blackbird only with dull orange type patch on its chest!I looked up rspb site its not a fieldfare at all? what is it!there was two to-day!

[Flighty]

Claybasket how about redwings?

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/redwing/index.aspx

[Digeroo]

Many thanks for the suggestions.  Mine was not a wryneck or a redwing.

It had a pale grey/brown chest with two brown patches.  Not mottled chest.  With darker wings.  Size of a blackbird. 

[claybasket]

I sorry Flighty, but thats not my birds ,I first thought it was a female blackbird,but the beak is dark and the marks on the chest are like a robins only dirty orange color,will use my bins tommorow to get a closer look :)

[Robert_S]

I don't think there's much else it could be apart from a Fieldfare, especially at this time of year...? Sometimes the spots can look as if they're clumped together, and they often hold their tails up a bit, often emphasised by slightly drooping wings.

Other than some sort of escape, its hard to see what else it could be.

The size thing, they are a bit bigger than blackbirds, but size is very difficult to judge with birds.

[green lily]

This is where a picture /photo shot would help ;)

[Aden Roller]

I don't think there's much else it could be apart from a Fieldfare,

I think you may well be right  ;)

[Digeroo]

I will see if it turns up again. 

Birds have a nasty habit of flying off as soon as I manage to get a camera in hand.
We had five male bull finches the other week and all I got was a rather poor pic with one. 

[green lily]

They only do it to annoy and because they know it teases...... ;D

[Aden Roller]

They only do it to annoy and because they know it teases...... ;D

"Watch the birdie" & smile please!!  :D

[Unwashed]

Blackbirds quite frequently have some white feathers so it's possibly a blackbird, but I don't think so as I've never heard of them having any grey, it's either black or white.

My best guess would be a Ring Ouzel.

[Robert_S]

Ring Ouzels are summer visitors here, and not really a garden bird, more of a moorland type, though they can turn up anywhere on passage in spring and autumn.

[Aden Roller]

Blackbirds quite frequently have some white feathers so it's possibly a blackbird, but I don't think so as I've never heard of them having any grey, it's either black or white.

My best guess would be a Ring Ouzel.

What an interesting bird. Not only have I never seen one I'd never heard of them before either!!!

This link works Ring Ouzel but I couldn't get your link to do it's thing.  :(