"Unexpected Visitor"
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I started to draw the curtains back in the front room and just a few feet away on the other side of the glass, a beautiful Wren. For this blog I will call her SHE until corrected. She was completely oblivious to me. Just by luck and within arms left my camera on the table.I switched on the camera, this one I have in both silent and sports mode.
Like a nosey neighbour like I am, I managed to control the camera with my right hand and slowly widen the gap in the net curtains with the right.
My first shot was the Wren looking underneath the leaves of the spring flowering viola…
She soon managed to catch and devour some unfortunate muncher of my plants-well done she!
Will definitely hire this lass as she was soon searching for more food.
Just hope I don’t have to pay her in shoes per hour, her foot size is massive for someone so sweet.
Hello something has warned her of possible danger, straight into ALERT!! Mode. You’d think it would be more than natural to take off but could be a hawk.
She even crouches lower as if she senses impending danger..
ALERT!! Mode been scaled down to what could be described as a Woodpigeon “Looking like a surfboard that had been in an argument with the jaws of a Great White.” I know this Wood pigeon well as she uses other birds to alert her from danger approaching from her starboard side. Poor thing is blind on the right with the eyeball completely missing. She did however with the help of a mate raise a couple of squabs last summer..What ever’s happened to her feathers, looks like a fledgling with the feathers just emerging from their sheaths. -What a fighter.
Deviating from the Wren, the proof of the pudding, two healthy looking squabs, some farmer’s future nightmare or another person’s pigeon pie..
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
27 Dec, 2011
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Lovely birdie pics, Tommy.
Great to get so many photos of the wren :o)
27 Dec, 2011
Lovely blog Tommy and some good shots there.
27 Dec, 2011
Fab wren pics Tommy, good catch, those wee birds can hear you breathe, then, they're off! ...in a flurry of feathers! :0)
27 Dec, 2011
Thank you all for your nice comments, will learn to hold my breath even longer.....
27 Dec, 2011
Lovely blog. Love the photos. Wren's were one my Nan and Grandad's favourite birds.
27 Dec, 2011
Thanks Alex, god bless......
27 Dec, 2011
Smashing blog Tommy with great photo`s, I`m so pleased I noticed your question....
27 Dec, 2011
In all the years I have known, for sure, that I have a wren in the garden, maybe even two, I've never been able to get a picture. Well done, Tommy. Good to get a really close look.
27 Dec, 2011
Thanks again all.
27 Dec, 2011
Great blog & pics Tommy..aw i feel sorry for the Wood pigeon...:o))
27 Dec, 2011
Fabulous pictures Tommy, very well done. So lucky your camera was so close to hand. Think you could send the wren over to get whatever is munching my plants when shes done at yours lol??
27 Dec, 2011
Thank you Joanella, have watched her when she could hardly hold her head up straight. I never reported her to the RSPCB as I correctly assumed she might have young at home, if she was caught and put down the young could have possibly starved to death.
In some earlier photos of the year I magnified photos of he eye I saw what I thought was the tail end of an airgun/rifle slug . Later I saw how viciously pigeons react to strangers on their patch and now believe this is how she lost the sight to the right eye.
27 Dec, 2011
Will try Samjp.
27 Dec, 2011
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Lovely blog tommy, such great shots of the wren, one of my very favourite birds. How fabulous that she came so near to the window.
27 Dec, 2011