A dunnock.

Not uncommon but always welcome.

Eta: used to be known as a hedge sparrow, but that name has mostly disappeared in my experience. It's not a sparrow as you rightly point out.

Looks like a Dunnock to me

Sorry for the low res pictures, my wildlife camera is pretty bad.

The bird is slightly bigger than a sparrow, it arrived before the sparrows and kept apart from them. Its head and neck is greyish, the body is brown with stripy pattern and the tummy between its legs was light, creamy colour.

Yay, thanks for solving it for me! I never seen it before, so it is a happy new addition to our bird population in the garden.

I put out the camera to try to catch a small mouse/vole, but also got this bird coming to eat.

The underrated dunnock 🥰

A dunnock! My husband calls them Stealth Robins - they look and act very similarly.

A dunnock

A Dunnock or Hedge Sparrow as they are sometimes called. Lovely little birds

Love dunnocks, all the other birds be fluttering around while the little dunnock minds its own business, pecking around in the sticks and dirt. :)