Any experts about? In the garden this morning(Stoke 0n Trent). A small bird. Markings rather like a tit, about the size of a blue tit, but skinnier, not so round. Black and white marked head, a bit coal tit like possibly? But, the really odd thing, it had a long pale yellow beak. Not hugely long, but much longer than any tit's beak.
No blue about the markings that I recall, and no yellow except the beak. At a guess the markings were just black white and fawn?
So, what was that? I have nothing like it in either of my bird books. An RSPB site(I think) on the internet, that you type in various characteristics to, showed no matches when I put in the size, the location, the medium pale yellow beak etc.
Interesting, its arrival provoked a very substantial busy agitated reaction from a large number of blue tits and great tits in the garden.