Just a little Dunnock

Here's a photo, taken by Brian Hammond, of a quiet and unassuming Dunnock.

It is a lovely, solitary little bird that's often seen alone creeping along the ground looking for food and moving with a rather nervous, shuffling gait.  It is common throughout Europe and Russia.

Dunnock (Prunella modularis) - Blackfordby

Postscript:-

The Dunnock (sometimes known as the Hedge Sparrow) has a complex social behaviour and has a bit of a reputation as being quite the degenerate of the garden bird world, habitually engaging in threesomes! It is not unusual for a male to mate with two  females, and quite common for a female to mate with more than one male. This is at least partly due to complex territory situations, with males tending to have larger territories than females. The female, alone, will build a nest. It is the males, however, that are the bread winners, feeding the young.

For some reason unknown to me, Robins tend to be somewhat antagonistic towards Dunnocks

If you see a little brown and grey bird going along the top of your fence high-flapping its wings, the chances are that it is a displaying Dunnock. Dunnocks can be quite confiding birds, and not fly away when gently approached. They have, until recently, been almost exclusively ground feeders. However, they seem to be learning to take food from bird feeders.

(Richard Pegler)