near Warkworth Golf Course, Northumberland   February 2016

Acanthis hornemanni exilipes

a long-staying bird in a flighty, mixed flock of Lesser & Mealy Redpolls

Rainton Meadows NR, Co. Durham   January 2011

Rainton Meadows NR, Co. Durham   January 2011

seen briefly,this very 'white' bird is presumably an Arctic

but note the long, dark-centred undertail covert