Originally posted by Skodadriver I am not sure if this is a Sparrow but it was quite calm having a bloke with a camera a few feet away. Maybe it was confident in merging with the background.
Well there's sparrows and sparrows, then there's sparrows. I used to call that one a hedge sparrow when I was growing up in Hampshire but now it's officially called a Dunnock. They're not related to House Sparrows which have spread to many parts of the world, and neither of them are related to the North American sparrows, whose relatives in Europe are often called Buntings. I know, it's confusing, but the people who first named them thought they were doing the right thing at the time.
Here's a very handsome North American sparrow, the White-Crowned.