Bird ID please?

[story]

In my London garden, singing its heart out.

Smaller than a robin, brown with speckles, a cream stripe over each eye, like eyebrows, yellow margin on the beak, tail stuck straight up.

The song repeats, is strong, tuneful, not as musical as a robin or blackbird.

Any ideas?

Not a thrush, certainly.

 

[Bingo]

Not a wren is it?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

A wren? They sing beautifully.

 

[story]

Yes!

A wren


Thanks Bingo and Paulie Tandoori.

Hope it stays

It is indeed a beautiful song.

 

[Bingo]

Aw cute aint they! Really common birds just right hard to spot most of the time!

 

[Bingo]

All I've got outside mine at the mo is a bunch of young starlings makin a right bloody racket!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

We had a wren build a nest in the underneath of upstairs balcony last year i think it was.

However, his missus didn't like the look of that one and nested elsewhere. Apparently, the male builds about 5-6 each season and the female then picks where she wants to lay her eggs. Battle of the sexes well and truly resolved there

 

[Bingo]

My Dad had one build a nest in a little climbing tree by his patio last year but the magpies got it grrr! Wonder how many sets of eggs they can do a year...?

 

[story]

Aw cute aint they! Really common birds just right hard to spot most of the time!

Can't say I've ever heard this song before, so I assume it's a new arrival.

This one was pretty bold this morning: perched on an outside branch of the birch tree, a-rockin' in the breeze. We were stood in the window watching him, I can't imagine he couldn't see us.

So they're happy to nest in urban gardens? Excellent. Hopefully we'll have some wren babies in the near vicinity

*buys bells 'n' collars for all the cats*

 

[Firky]

Wrens are excellent. I love birds. Goldcrests are probably my favourite

 

[coccinelle]

They've got a belting song for a tiny bird, usually ending with a trill. I was surprised to see that, along with chaffinches, they are the commonest bird in the UK (probably because they're geographically widely spread and enjoy both urban and rural habitats).

 

[Bingo]

Saw my first Goldcrest ever a few months ago on a walk round a reservoir... ace!

 

[weepiper]

wrens are so cute, we have a resident pair that hunt beasties in the crannies of the drystane dyke behind the house.

 

[coccinelle]

Saw my first Goldcrest ever a few months ago on a walk round a reservoir... ace!

Never seen a Goldcrest and I've loved birds for years. Envy!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

we had 2 goldfinches in the tree at the end of the garden tonight, never seen them before. well chuffed with seeing such beautiful birds mucking about in the willow with mrs blackbird and her chick

 

[two sheds]

we had 2 goldfinches in the tree at the end of the garden tonight, never seen them before. well chuffed with seeing such beautiful birds mucking about in the willow with mrs blackbird and her chick

Yep I've got a couple of them visit (they go for the nijger seed), they almost look tropical. Them and the bullfinches, too.

Never seen a goldcrest, looks lovely - another nomination for sweetest are long tailed tits though, once had a dozen of them fluttering round the bird feeders. Awwwww

 

[Athos]

Wrens are excellent. I love birds. Goldcrests are probably my favourite

My parents had a mirror in the garden (dont ask!) and a goldcrest was mesmorised by it. It would sit there for literally hours on end looking at itself, and let you walk up to within a foot of it before it flew off!

 

[Badgers]

Wrens can be vicious, especially when cornered

 

[fen_boy]

I had one of these in my garden a few weeks back

 

[Badgers]

My garden seen yesterday

 

[Bingo]

Whats with the poncy white fags?

 

[Callie]

Never seen a goldcrest, looks lovely - another nomination for sweetest are long tailed tits though, once had a dozen of them fluttering round the bird feeders. Awwwww

they look like flying lollipops!

goldcrests like to hang out in pines and conifers so check them out - theyre very very tiny. I saw loads of the buggers recently in a little park/garden all flitting around in a big pine tree.

 

[Bingo]

Yeah weird apparently they only hang out in evergreens! My one was in one too!

 

[Callie]

I found one in the road once. I rescued him, he fell out of the sky as I was on my way to work and landed in the bus lane I couldnt believe how tiny he was I hope he was ok after I left him. aww nice birdy!

 

[story]

The Wren came back this morning, singing away for all he was worth (I assume it's he to be singing that way).

The goldcrest looks a bit punk rock.

 

[weepiper]

We have the occasional visit from goldfinches and goldcrests - they're so bright and cheerful looking

Never seen a long-tailed tit which is strange cos they're definitely in the general area - just not in our garden/immediate vicinity

 

[redsnapper]

The Wren came back this morning, singing away for all he was worth (I assume it's he to be singing that way).

The goldcrest looks a bit punk rock.

Firecrest's are more punk