Jenny

The morning was mild with occasional showers and the garden invited me to do some tiding up; collecting leaves for the bin, pulling out the straggling apple mint, washing the outside of windows and then..... Better go for the camera because the sky was bright with patches of blue. J had mentioned earlier to look out for the gold crest on the seaweed we collected a few weeks ago, and there she was pecking away and not too flighty. I stood for a good half hour waiting and watching, occasionally snapping when the gold crest lost its crest and became a wren. ? A well behaved wren that was scratching under the golden shrub and then popped out in front of me. My camera skills failed me and only a few shots are blippable, I have blipped the above in order to show her tail and fabulous beak.


Taken from the internet

The wren is a tiny brown bird, although it is heavier, less slim, than the even smaller goldcrest. It is dumpy, almost rounded, with a fine bill, quite long legs and toes, very short round wings and a short, narrow tail which is sometimes cocked up vertically. For such a small bird it has a remarkably loud voice. It is the commonest UK breeding bird, although it suffers declines during prolonged, severely cold winters.