Orange bird with a black head?

jon1968 | 13:27 Fri 31st Jul 2009 | Animals & Nature

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Sorry it's not much to go on but that's all I've been told? Can anyone hazard a guess as to what this might be... sounds like Posh spice to me!
Apparently it's about the size of a tit?

What breed is this?

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barry1010

You might find this interesting, jon.
http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob18810 .htm

jon1968

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Ooops, forgot one...

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z272/jon196 8_photos/bird12.jpg

Thanks Barry & jno, it doesn�t come across on those pics but the colours are incredibly vibrant, and the whole head seems to be black which doesn�t seem to match those other photos? Probably just someones canary that�s escaped... although there are two of them!

Cetti

If there's a pair of them jon, then that's the Blac-headed Bunting out as one blown off course is a rarity, but a pair....no chance.

It doesn't have the thin canary bill though.......the mystery deepens. They're not plastic are they - and you are having a laugh ;-)

jon1968

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If I thought I could get a laugh as easily as that then I would�ve done Cetti! ;-) What I know about the feathered variety of birds you can write in very large letters on the back of a stamp!
I can assure you it�s real, Mum spotted one this morning and asked me to look it up on the computer �cause she couldn�t find it in her bird spotting book. (Those pics are taken from their kitchen window).
I�ve been reporting back since I got home and she said there were two of them on the table this afternoon?