I know some of you will recognise this as a ‘Winter Wren’, but here in the UK we usually simplify refer to them as a ‘Wren’ – we don’t have their extended family here.
These are tiny little birds and for their size have a powerful call/song. They can be a real pain if you’re trying to stalk something, as they give alarm calls readily and insistently – and don’t stop until you leave their area, but leaving one area you invariably enter another bird’s area.
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Stephen G Hipperson 
I miss this tiny bird’s song, but I am learning about the extended wren family and they all appear to have wonderful songs too.
According to my book, the winter wren should get into British Columbia – just think one day you’ll be walking through the woods and it will blast it’s song at you and you will smile to yourself!
Amazing picture of a beautiful little wren…one of my favorite birds. Thanks, for visiting my blog.
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lovely bird
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Lovely little birds and not easy to catch this beautifully… got one of them in my own little jungle 🙂
I could never catch onto them with my ‘old’ bridge camera because of shutter lag – I ended up with more pictures of empty sticks than anything!
What a cute (if annoying) little bird! So puffed up– like he’s proud to be a part of the neighborhood watch. : ) Thanks for stopping by and liking my post!
Thanks to you too!
Beautiful picture!
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In my part of the world, the wrens have these fabulous, never-ending, super complicated songs. Yours too?
In a word No. But they do have a tendency to blast out unexpectedly and pretty loud for such a tiny bird.
I’d describe it as machine gun fire. Just about my favourite bird, yet I’ve never yet managed to photograph one properly 😦 They weave in and out of the drystone wall that surrounds our garden) and there were four or so roosting behind the barge board on our roof a few winters ago.
This was the best I’ve managed, more about bird behaviour than photography
Great capture – we have wrens here, especially the splendid blue wren – very striking but difficult to get near.
I used to feed the birds regularly, so this Wren was a little less wary than others, however, getting close enough get a decent size images is the problem.
These tiny birds sit on my fence and sing their little hearts out with such melodious trilling notes.
They do certainly gladden the heart.
Fantastic photo of a great little bird! In my part of the world (the West coast of North America, British Columbia to be more precise, they are called Pacific Wrens – this type of Wren is now considered to be three different species and I have seen all three!). Thanks for sharing…
AH! The species splitters have been at work then! Here in the UK, with, I guess, Europe they (the people who agree this sort of thing) have rushes of blood and decide that particular races of a bird are suddenly different species too. Still it gives Birders/Twitchers a wider scope for the their hobby (and mine too!) All the best, Stephen