Jenny Wren (Saturday 6th June 2020)

In the past when I have encountered wrens I have usually been near water, so that has been the habitat I have associated with them. When I started being visited by one at the Old Forge years ago, some way from any stretch of water, I was therefore mildly surprised. About three years ago one turned up dead outside the porch, possibly the victim of a certain grey and white cat, and that was that.
More recently I had seen rare glimpses of another one in the Woodland Garden and these glimpses have become more common recently. There was one on a laurel shrub branch on Woody Wednesday and indeed I have just now seen one from the bathroom window, flying from over next door's green fence.
Yesterday, however, at one o'clock, I saw one outside the porch window that flew off into the front yard, and quickly grabbing my P900 I managed to get a couple of shots of it through the kitchen window (some way from the glass) when it settled on the camellia. It was raining slightly so it looks a little bedraggled and seems to have brushed against something cobwebby, but I am pleased to report my first image of a wren, and on my own land.

So much better resolution in Large (Gallery) view

L.
7.6.2020 (1345 hr)

Blip #3240 (#2990 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #035
Blips/Extras In 2020 #91/266 + #047/100 Extras
Day #3726 (840 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2369 (#2210 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Front Yard series
Birds series
Taken Through Glass series

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (equivalent 24-2000mm bridge camera)

Woodland Garden (May 2020) (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren (recorded October 2004, Ocean Way Recordings, Los Angeles CA)
Paul McCartney (vcl, Epiphone Texan ac gtr, Ludwig floor tom) with Pedro Eustache (duduk)
"Jenny Wren was written in Los Angeles, and is about a character of the same name from Charles Dickens' 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend. It also refers to a bird known as the wren, which is reported to be McCartney's favourite. McCartney wrote the tune in the same sort of finger picking style found in Blackbird, Mother Nature's Son and Calico Skies. The song earned a nomination for the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category.
The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk — a first in pop music history — played by Venezuelan-born world winds specialist and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Eustache. The guitar is tuned down a whole step for the song, providing a unique sound that reflects McCartney's earlier works." - Wikipedia

One year ago:
Gaillardia