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Can anyone identify this little fella for me please?

http://s597.photobucket.com/albums/tt54/Sinbad7/Can%20you/

Possibly a female chaffinch?

http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/chaffinch_female_300_tcm9-139742.jpg

It looks like a grey wagtail to me. 

See: http://www.birdguides.com/iris/pictures.asp?f=229932

Thank you Flighty and Paulines7, a Grey Wagtail it is:)

Thanks for the link Pauline - I now find that my yellow wagtails are, in fact, grey wagtails! Never mind, they are all lovely birds.

Tricia

Grey wagtail.  It won't be far from water.

My pond - and a stream not too far away.

Tricia

Hi Sinbad7

Its is a Male Grey Wagtail, with its white throat.

They can usually be seen this time of year as pairs or a single bird near water.

Vegwise.

Hi Vegwise, welcome to A4A.  They're pretty aren't they.  We have them nest of the beams of the lock gates.

Hi Vegwise, thank you for that.

I have a pair of them but the little Pied Wagtail chases them off, the little so and so chases everything off.

I don't have a garden so am really delighted to be able to look outside my front door and see a pair of Grey Wagtails, a pair of Pied Wagtails, one Robin, one Sparrow, one Blackbird and I am almost certain that I have a Fieldfare, well only saw him/her the once.

I am not sure what I should be putting down for them all to eat.  So far it has been oats, sultana's peanuts pine nuts and biscuits.

What would anyone suggest would be best to feed them to keep them coming?

Sinbad

All the pippets eat insects.  How about mealworms - if the robins leave any.

Sinbad probably the best all-round bird food is porridge oats, which most birds eat and is relatively cheap to buy! I scatter a mix of that with bird food, seed and peanuts, on the ground out the back of my flat every morning.

Every day I see a robin, male and female blackbirds, a coal tit, two grey wagtails, a mistle thrush, several magpies, a handful of starlings and lots of wood pigeons, as well as the resident squirrels! The blue tits stay up in the trees and I usually only hear the ring-necked parakeets.

All great fun to watch eating, flying and squabbling!

When the Pied Wagtails seemed to take over from the Sparrow's,  a few years ago, I looked on-line to see what I could feed them and it said insects, so figured they have had to change their eating habit's, over the years, so try to crush things really fine for them.

I thought the mealworms had to be put on soil.  I did buy a tub once for my friends garden but nothing ate them, I haven't got a clue why as he has all the normal garden birds, just thought they must have been naff mealworms, if there is such a thing  ;D

Thanks for that Flighty, I am on the right lines then as I did buy them two different sorts of oats and I also bought lard and melted that and mixed everything together, I was a bit disappointed as lard gets you in a bit of a mess and they never even  ate it, old Percy Pigeon came along and scoffed the lot, but I did think they have to eat too I suppose.

But great fun watching them as you say.