Scotland Bird?!?

[Red-eyed Video]

I took about 30 pictures of this bird while in Scotland last week. It woke me up at 04.30 one morning and I managed to see Otter thanks to it, but what is it?

[Colin Key]

Scottish Crossbill?

Colin

[Steve Keen]

Coal Tit???

[Ben Miller]

I took about 30 pictures of this bird while in Scotland last week. It woke me up at 04.30 one morning and I managed to see Otter thanks to it, but what is it?

Hi Dave - Chaffinch, male :smile:

PS - enjoyed your Polecat video from my local patch!

[Red-eyed Video]

Some educated guesses there and brought to an untimely end before I could post the next clues.

Well done Ben & thanks for your comments on my Polecat video, second best tick of the year after Collared Flycatcher and before Eastern Bonelli's Warbler :beer:

Just for the record, some prepared clues & a more obliging shot of the noisy little blighter.

[Colin Key]

Bugger,

Chaffinch was my first guess on the pink breast, but the "Scotty" connection made me stick my neck out.

Colin :ohdear:

[Red-eyed Video]

Bugger,

Chaffinch was my first guess on the pink breast, but the "Scotty" connection made me stick my neck out.

Colin :ohdear:

Apologies for leading you up the garden path Colin, I deliberately avoided using 'Scottish bird' to describe it, maybe I should have said British but that would have been inaccurate too.

If it had been a Scot bill that had woken me I wouldn't have been so annoyed with him!

[mafting]

Bugger,

Chaffinch was my first guess on the pink breast, but the "Scotty" connection made me stick my neck out.

Colin :ohdear:

plenty of white in the tail should have been a clue ;o)

[MichaelF]

Definitely NOT a Red-eyed Vireo . . . :smile:

[Colin Key]

plenty of white in the tail should have been a clue ;o)

To be honest, I could not tell its "arse from its elbow"! :laugh::ohdear::smile:

Colin