New bird sighted

I called out to my partner this morning to help identify a bird I'd never seen in the garden before. At first I thought it was a chaffinch, though we have never seen chaffinches in this area. Then he identified it as a brambling. I am putting out some new seed that I bought from the Wetlands Trust. It obviously contains something that bramblings love - and sparrows, too, as for the first time ever, we had a flock of about twenty of them on the lawn. Unfortunately, my camera batteries chose that moment to die. Just my luck!