Topic: Spot the wren

[Ninnyscrops.]

it looks like a mouse to me!  ;D ::)

Rach, maybe a bigger magnifying glass needed  ;D

Ninny xxx

[Paulines7]

Mine posed for me but, unfortunately, my camera does not pick out the detail.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Looks like a willow warbler. When was the pic taken? They're long-distance migrants which haven't been recorded as overwintering here, but the very closely related chiffchaff (which has dark-coloured legs) does.

[Borlotti]

I couldn't see the wren even with glasses, but why has this screen and all the other screens on this site gone so big, and I never touched anything, honest????

[Paulines7]

Looks like a willow warbler. When was the pic taken? They're long-distance migrants which haven't been recorded as overwintering here, but the very closely related chiffchaff (which has dark-coloured legs) does.

No, it's definately a wren Robert; he or she is always in my garden.  The willow warbler is a different shape having a much longer tail.  The picture was taken on 1st December. 

See  http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/w/wren/index.aspx

[Unwashed]

Defo a wren Robert, look at the tail.

Wrens as female robins?  Dunnock and robin are almost identical other than the red breast, and you can't tell the young apart - was it the dunnock, not the wren, that was thought to be a femal robin?

[Ninnyscrops.]

That's a lovely picture Paulines7, I can just about make out the mottling on the tail. Defo a wren.

Our one broke cover this week again but I was too slow with the camera  :(

Ninny