Wren (Lounged)

[Moos]

Saw a wren this morning hopping about at ED station, which was a cheerful sight. Aren't they quite rare these days?

[Asset]

I've got one in the back garden

[macroban]

I remember when I had one in my purse.

[Moos]

AND you could buy something with it!

[snorky]

ED cats love then sadly.

but thats Ok, because its " natural" for a cat to hunt.

[citizenED]

See one in my back garden quite frequently too.

[jimbo1964]

Saw one in my garden on Sunday.

[SteveT]

I have one visit my garden, but I cannot remember spending a farthing which for the benefit of younger forumistas, it appeared on. It had gone out of circulation long before I was on the scene. circa 1946.

[macroban]

Last minted in 1956, demonetised in 1960.

[kford]

Wrens - not too rare, often heard rather than seen. Expect to see more of 'em now the winters are getting milder.

[cookie]

We had a nest full of baby wrens outside our bathroom window last year. They sounded wonderful every morning. Unfortunately the local cats got the lot before they had chance to leave the nest.

[snorky]

cookie Wrote:

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> We had a nest full of baby wrens outside our

> bathroom window last year. They sounded wonderful

> every morning. Unfortunately the local cats got

> the lot before they had chance to leave the nest.

Nnnnn/ Grrrrrrr

this makes me sad, it really does.

read this post above cat lovers and try to justify your selfish ownership of these awful animals.

( or you could cut n past this in your reply should you need a quick n easy reply

" I cant stop my cat from doing this, its just natural isnt it "

etc etc etc )

[vero]

cookie Wrote:

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> We had a nest full of baby wrens outside our

> bathroom window last year. They sounded wonderful

> every morning. Unfortunately the local cats got

> the lot before they had chance to leave the nest.

They must have been spectacularly good climbers, then...unless your bathroom is in the basement ;-)

[bon3yard]

Phwoaar...I love a good Wren me, met a good few of 'em in me service years aboard the HMS Erection. Right lively sorts they was and gagging for a bit of action during shore leave. In fact my Elsie was a Wren, leastways she was until I got 'er in the family way. Shotgun wedding? More like forced nuptials at the barell of a small munitions factory, 'er old fella was a stern old church going type who....etc.

[Sandperson]

I cant stop my cat(s) from doing this, its just natural isnt it.

Blimey with two cats, an impending birth and being a Man Utd fan I am looking forward to being one of the most unpopular people on the forum!

[Moos]

Don't worry about it, Sandperson - lots of people use the Forum to vent and it's easy to come away thinking that everyone will loathe you the minute you step outside your door with your buggy / bicycle / Caffe Nero cup / White Stuff bag / whatever. I think it's just that the mean-spirited and openly prejudiced posts stick in the mind more than the kind, intelligent, tolerant ones, although there are just as many of the latter.

Congratulations in advance to you and Mrs. Sandperson for your happy event! Great news.

Moosperson

[Sandperson]

Oh I forgot that I am a cyclist and that I have visited Starbucks as well!

[Moos]

OK, that's it. Out!

[SimonM]

We have lots of different birds in the garden because we have several feeders hanging off a tree/from the wall. We also have 2 cats, one of which is far too lazy to go murdering avian wild-life, but the other being something of a mass-murderer for a short-while. He now wears three bells and the birds are now safe from him. The birds of coure are still under threat from magpies and foxes though...

[Nero]

I have a wren that comes to eat all the little insects off a budleia (sp) bush. I'd never seen one on the bush until it came a few weeks ago, and was going to post about it, but then read that they are really common. Can't be that common if someone else is remarking on it. Nero

[Moos]

Ave, Nero, not surprised to find you on this thread.

I think they are just hard to spot. Although I'm sure I read that they were becoming endangered, I was glad to hear that this is not the case.

[spadetownboy]

no wrens in my gaff, but we have a robin who pops into the rabbits run and eats the rabbit food.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

There are about 53 nationwide and 85% of those are in London so not that rare. Damned Luftwaffe.

[SteveT]

The snow leopard that pops into the garden tried to catch my wren, I let it have both barrels, it went home pissed as a fart and has ignored the wren since.

[Moos]

This thread is heading for Quiet Room levels of weirdness... I like it!

I only started it 'cos I thought we needed one that was a bit more jolly than the BNP and how Godawful mothers are.