UK garden birds with yellow on them

Yellow underneath usually means a blue tit or a great tit — the great tit has a black stripe down the middle. A yellow flash along the wing means a goldfinch or a greenfinch.

4 of the 30 birds on this site fit. Each one links to its full page, with what separates it from the ones it gets mistaken for.

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  Blue Tit

  Green-listed and doing well. The most useful thing you can give it is caterpillars in May, not more seed in January.

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  Goldfinch

  Red face, gold wing bar, tinkling call. A specialist seed-eater that has moved into gardens in enormous numbers over thirty years.

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  Great Tit

  The largest UK tit, and the bossiest bird on the feeder. Black head, white cheeks, and a black stripe straight down a yellow belly.

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  Greenfinch

  Red listed since 2021 after a disease outbreak halved it. A heavy olive-green finch with yellow wing flashes and a thick pale bill.

Not here? Describe what you saw — the identifier ranks every garden bird rather than filtering them out, so it will not hide yours.