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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Ninnyscrops. on October 13, 2009, 19:44:06

Title: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 13, 2009, 19:44:06
In the garden today.

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t87/ninnyscrops/DSCF0656.jpg)

Ninny
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Jayb on October 13, 2009, 22:31:53
Yay, took me a few moments but found it, they are lovely birds to watch.

Nice looking onions too
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 13, 2009, 22:37:54
Thanks JayB. Give the others a clue, I can't work out how to repost with a circle!

Ninny
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Jayb on October 13, 2009, 22:50:30
2/3rds across (left to right) and about 1/2 way up or down, depends which way you view it!
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 13, 2009, 22:55:00
Got it  ;)

Ninny
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Squash64 on October 14, 2009, 06:21:59
I think I need new glasses!
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: shirlton on October 14, 2009, 08:27:37
You are not on your own Betty ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Squash64 on October 14, 2009, 08:50:50
I think I found it!

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It's been driving me mad so I saved the photo, enlarged it, then cropped it!   Yes, I know, way too much time on my hands!

Shirl and I are off to Specsavers now......
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: small on October 14, 2009, 13:14:35
Thanks Betty! I've spent hours looking for the d..n thing, and don't have the techie skills to do what you did.....why didn't I just go outside and watch my own wren?
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: shirlton on October 14, 2009, 13:27:40
Cheers Betty. See you outside the shop ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 15, 2009, 23:28:43
Well done Betty!

I'll come clean now...........it took me an age to find it once I'd downloaded the piccy (even with my Specsaver glasses on!).  It was checking out the greenhouse when I first spotted it so I grabbed the camera hoping for a piccy in there, then it flew out and I saw it land and just hoped I'd captured it  :)

Ninny
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Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Digeroo on October 15, 2009, 23:52:34
QuoteShirl and I are off to Specsavers now......

I think I had better come too.  Are you sure there a bird there it hasn't moved  ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 16, 2009, 00:10:03
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t87/ninnyscrops/DSCF0657edit.jpg)

Not a very neat circle  ::) but it's in there.

Just spent nearly half an hour working out how to get that far!

Linda
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Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Duke Ellington on October 16, 2009, 08:31:21
Ninnyssssssssssss

For flip sake just zoom in on it next time  :P~~~I am not playing with Ninnys no more!! :'(

Duke ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Jayb on October 16, 2009, 08:32:58
So did I find it for you? ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Squash64 on October 16, 2009, 08:48:21
Quote from: Duke Ellington on October 16, 2009, 08:31:21
Ninnyssssssssssss

For flip sake just zoom in on it next time  :P~~~I am not playing with Ninnys no more!! :'(

Duke ;D

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on October 16, 2009, 14:19:19
Quote from: Jayb on October 16, 2009, 08:32:58
So did I find it for you? ;D

Hi JayB,

I knew where it was but I couldn't crop the picture as Betty did  ::), but thank you for giving the clues.

Quote from: Duke Ellington on October 16, 2009, 08:31:21
Ninnyssssssssssss

For flip sake just zoom in on it next time  :P~~~I am not playing with Ninnys no more!! :'(

Duke ;D

I didn't have time to zoom in Duchess - there it was then there it wasn't  ;D

Ninny
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Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: theothermarg on December 12, 2009, 18:53:42
re wrens I heard that it used to be thought that a wren was a female robin and I can see why as I watched one going around my wildlife pond from my window
it was too fast for me to grab a camera I'm afraid
marg
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: elvis2003 on December 12, 2009, 19:58:47
it looks like a mouse to me!  ;D ::)
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on December 13, 2009, 23:12:48
Quote from: theothermarg on December 12, 2009, 18:53:42
re wrens I heard that it used to be thought that a wren was a female robin and I can see why as I watched one going around my wildlife pond from my window
it was too fast for me to grab a camera I'm afraid
marg

Hi Marg, I think the tail is a pointer for the difference, wren's tails are so short and stubby. Also the way they move around the garden, very short jumps rather than flying as such.

Ninny
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on December 13, 2009, 23:16:54
Quote from: elvis2003 on December 12, 2009, 19:58:47
it looks like a mouse to me!  ;D ::)

Rach, maybe a bigger magnifying glass needed  ;D

Ninny xxx
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Paulines7 on December 14, 2009, 10:01:07
Mine posed for me but, unfortunately, my camera does not pick out the detail.


(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x311/7stephenson/wldlife/wren.jpg)
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 14, 2009, 14:28:31
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.
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Borlotti on December 14, 2009, 15:59:19
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????
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Paulines7 on December 14, 2009, 20:01:38
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on December 14, 2009, 14:28:31
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
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Unwashed on December 14, 2009, 20:25:55
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?
Title: Re: Spot the wren
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on December 14, 2009, 22:44:08
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