Image-of-the-Day by Subject

Image-of-the-Day by Subject

Birds - Wren Page 1

Image of day on 08 Aug 2007

Here is yesterday's Wren having a dust bath as a 14 frame animation shown at about one third natural speed. Note the flying sand in frames 2 and 12, and the apparent extasy in frame 10.

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Image Taken on 31 Dec 2006 at 12:09 Image of day on 14 Jan 2007

One of the 'joys' of winter is seeing all the nests you had no idea were there when they were occupied. From the small size and seeing wrens many times in this area during the summer we think this is a Wren's nest.

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Image Taken on 25 Aug 2009 at 19:49 Image of day on 12 Oct 2009

We quite often get fleeting views of wrens in the hedges, but have not photographed one at a one of the 'sites' for 4 years. So we are pleased this one popped by.

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Image Taken on 19 Apr 2007 at 12:34 Image of day on 06 May 2007

Wrens usually offer only a fleeting glimpse, but we spotted this bird furiously taking nesting material to about .5m up a reed mace clump. This is a composite of two images (bird at the left a second or two before the right).

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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2007 at 15:58 Image of day on 07 Aug 2007

Views of Wrens are usually very fleeting, but this bird spent a couple of minutes bathing in the sand and dust by a hydrant. Tomorrow an animation of a few second of his joy.

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Image of day on 29 Jun 2005

Wrens are small, lightening fast and spend most of their time inside obscuring dense hedges so we were pleased to get this chance image of a young wren in flight.

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Image of day on 22 Nov 2005

A capricious image of a wren zipping across a camera site.

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Image Taken on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:58 Image of day on 11 May 2008

Wrens are so quick its usually 'look - there was a wren there'. In a shady corner this one was exploring the ivy on the garage wall giving us a chance for a photo.

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Image Taken on 05 Aug 2010 at 19:58 Image of day on 07 Sep 2010

We very rarely see Wrens at the photo sites, so when we DO get one why does it look like it is falling over backwards?

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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2011 at 12:17 Image of day on 27 Dec 2011

From the house across the main pond, we spotted this tiny wren having an unusually long stay at the water's edge. Normally you see a wren for barely more than a few seconds before it rushes off elsewhere.

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Image Taken on 31 Jul 2011 at 07:07 Image of day on 12 Sep 2011

This wren popped up for a moment with an insect in its beak, and flew off into the back of the overgrown lilies at the back of the main pond. We have spotted them around the back over a couple of weeks and are fairly sure they are now feeding chicks on a nest.

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