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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jane Turner" data-source="post: 3305654" data-attributes="member: 4350">We had an odd bunting at Red Rocks today.  It spent most of its time flying in circles around us.  Came down 4 times - twice out of view.  It sounded like a Yellowhammer but there were a few things a bit weird about it.  I didn't see it as well as I wanted since I had a camera pressed to my face when it did land.  Mt companion was using my scope on since his camera was broken.  It never landed close and the light was very harshOdd things:-It seemed a bit small and short tailed - ie seemed smaller than Reed Bunting.-We failed to see any white in the tail (though it was late before I thought to check) and oddly it didn't tail flick. I was expecting the photos to show something, but on the one where it took flight - the outer TF appears to have no white wedge.  -We did get a lot of views of the rump.  It wasn't rufous - more brown - duller than the wings and mantle.I can't come up with an alternative to weird Yellowhammer.  The lack of white wedges could be us being crap,  but the rump was seen to well, too many times to not be a real featureSound file of call<a href="https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/bunting-best-calls-high-pass" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/bunting-best-calls-high-pass</a>and whole observation with swearing and lots of mentions of its arse<a href="https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/bunting-spp" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/bunting-spp</a></blockquote>

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