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| Little Jenny Wren |
I spent a while this morning trying to
catch a wren which had flown into our utility room (polite name for the room
that has everything chucked into it!) through an open window. Eventually I caught
it and having admired it for a few seconds, I released it back into the garden.
To my surprise it flew to the top of a large bush and burst into song! They may
be small, but they certainly have plenty of spirit!
I see from the new bird Atlas, (not yet got my
own - but soon!) that the Wren was the most widespread breeding bird across Britain
between 2007 / 2011, which was when the surveys were carried out for this book.
In Britain, out of the 2,860 10-km squares covered in the Bird Atlas, the Wren
was only absent from 73 of those squares!
Bet you would not have guessed the birds that
came in second and third in the widespread stakes – the Skylark and Pied
Wagtail were in 2,753 and 2,746 respectively. I would definitely have got it
wrong!
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