Wren’s are small fast birds that you can find in your own back garden, Their are over 10 million wren’s in the UK alone!. They have been localized to many towns (even maybe in your area) and are compact with quick reflexes and energy.
The Wren have a beautiful song that is loud and full it has a excellent speed and vibrant tones which can last for 5-6 seconds and can be heard a kilo-meter away!!!.
Did You Know?
When a Wren sings if you look closely then you can notice it shakes with effort because the high pitch and loud capacity.
Fun Facts
The Wren is usually seen on the ground running in forest and garden floors at day you can spot many Wren’s in popular woods and forests and the tree’s come alive with the common wren and other species of bird they rarely fly and when they do they hop into the air in quick short gliding bursts and only in straight flapping lines.
They eat insects and spiders searching in cracks of wood, brick, and mud/grass, they rarely take food from a bird table they eat mainly from the ground and if they do take from high bird tables it’s either winter or their very hungry.
Wrens are one of the smallest bird and measure nine to ten centimeters long (9-10cm) and weigh eight to thirteen grams (8-13g)
Birdie Baby’s
Young Wrens are born naked pink and blind when they hatch they just have enough strength to lift their heads and open their little beaks to eat food that the mother supplies them with usually 5-7 egg are laid and not all survive about two don’t make it through hatching and die but mainly most survive (Sometimes all sometimes none) The Baby Wrens make their mothers busy when they hatch and they barely eat to feed the growing Baby’s one chick eats up to five hundred to six hundred meals a day (500-600 meals!!!)
76 responses to The Common Wren
Mama wren working hard
Five wrens just hatched three days ago in nest on my porch right outside glass door. I have a great view of what’s going on and Mama is used to seeing me from a distance. No male has ever been around and Mama is working herself to death trying to feed her brood alone. She is leaving the nest every five minutes. Is there anything I could put out to help Mama (food for her or the chicks) or am I just worrying needlessly?
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How is mom wren
Maybe a feeder nearby would help? I know our wrens eat sunflower seeds.
Good luck
wrens
There is a wren nest in the hanging flower pot on my porch. I believe there were 4 eggs laid, tho one egg is in the plant outside the nest. Inside the nest is one unhatched egg and one dead hatch-ling. Until two days ago, momma was constantly flying in & out of the nest. One baby grew much larger than the other(one that died). As of yesterday, the living baby is gone & the nest is abandoned. I didn’t think it was ready to leave the nest, but I haven’t any sign of the baby or the momma since.
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Baby wrens
I have some in the ferns on my front porch. What can I feed them to keep them alive?
newborn wrens
We have 5 baby wrens until today the mom was feeding I thought they were dead (the nest is built between 2 chair cushions)I jostled the cushions & the babies moved but didn’t open eyes. What can we do to keep them alive??
Wrens nest
A wren that has made a nest and has since layed a clutch of eggs in my garden,appears to have abandoned the nest and its eggs,will it be back,very concerned as i put a finger in the nest to see if it had layed any eggs,i was just curious,and feel damned guilty now!!! I live in P~oulton Le Fylde in England
I love the Wren….its one of my favourite garden birds next to the Blue tit and the Robin!!!
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