Out and about this week, I called in at one of my regular haunts to have another go at taking some photo's of the Long-tailed Tits.
Whilst standing very still waiting for their arrival, I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye.
At first I thought it was a mouse moving in amongst a log pile, I then saw it was a little Wren (Troglodytes Troglodytes).
It has to be one of the hardest things to photograph, so small and so fast. Not staying still for more than a second. Trying to keep it in view without the camera was hard enough, never mind trying to find through the lense.
I didn't have my camera settings set correctly to take photo's of a fast, small moving bird. But I did get some shots which I thought I would share with you.
Regards Buzzard
Nature Is Amazing - Let Us Keep It That Way
Lovely photos! It's hard to get one of the little blighters to stand still long enough to get photographs.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Well done Buzzard, it's hard to get these lovely little birds but you did it beautifully. As MarJus says, one of my favourite birds and to me they're all song from such a little body! I absolutely love them. We had a couple but haven't seen them since the cold weather set in - such a shame.
Regards
Kerry
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Don't give up on your wren, Kezmo. Our's returned yesterday. I am sure it is the same bird as it was sitting in the porch, looking for the food, which I left for it during the cold weather, having found it looking very cold and pathetic during the very cold weather.
Oh thanks Brenda, you've given me hope. It would be such a sadness if I've lost them. I've been putting out meal worms for them around the tree where they used to be found but no luck, the starlings have benefitted but not the wrens.
Kezmo/Brenda
My little Wren likes to be close to our back Patio Door.
So I have placed a little woven nestbox (in our dense garden bush) for our Wren to hide for the duration of the cold weather at the moment.
Woven Nestbox at a cost of £2 from Homebase
Just try to entice the wren in all the ways that we can to get them close to us.
Wrens like insects, so Mealworms would be a great subsitute.
I have just read that a Wren has a slight curved beak - like a Curlew has but not so curved shaped (interesting to know)
Kathy and Dave
Unknown said: Oh thanks Brenda, you've given me hope. It would be such a sadness if I've lost them. I've been putting out meal worms for them around the tree where they used to be found but no luck, the starlings have benefitted but not the wrens.
Hi Blackbird - Good to know, perhaps I will try one. Are yours using it?
Hi Kezmo
i always understood that having some little Wren 'bird' homes to hide in over the worst of the 'freezing' weather at the moment.
I am not sure about our own 'Nestbox' at the moment, I am not wanting to chase or to put off any bird lodgers - to much interference going on.
Do you think I should place some nesting material in the nestbox. Material something like shredded paper.
Would that entice our little friends to help attract them to warm lodgings (along with the mealworms too LOL)
We were lucky that our's decided to live in a potted bush in the front door porch, so I put a small cardboard box lined with nest lining, which I still had, facing the house wall. The wren slept there every night, so I was surprised that it went missing. It was there tonight.
Thank you Brenda
So Cardboard will help line the nestbox {good idea}
Now I am thinking that shredded paper will end up all soggy, and full of 'poo'
hmm!!
What did you use as nestlining?
Hi Kathy,
I put shredded paper in my 3 nest boxes in case they wanted to roost during the winter. Bit by bit, the bluetits removed all the shredded paper until there was none left. I saw them doing this. (They dropped most of it in my garden!!) I have had my new webcam in one of the boxes for 3 days now and a bluetit has roosted each of the 3 nights without any shredded paper.
Cheers, Linda.
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