My blogging pal Derrick has a robin that visits his garden, I don’t have a Robin but I do have a Wren. I like the Wren, it is not so obligingly photogenic as the Robin but is possibly my favourite British bird…
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Have Bag, Will Travel 
Mentioning Nugget in the same sentence as your wren brought to mind the nursery rhyme that I recited on the school stage when five years old. I haven’t thought of this in a long long time.
Cock Robin got up early,
At the break of day,
And went to Jenny’s window
To sing a roundelay.
He sang Cock Robin’s love
To the pretty Jenny Wren,
And when he got unto the end,
Then he began again.
I wonder if your wren is a Jenny!
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A lovely rhyme. I think my garden visitor is male because he is gathering nesting material.
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For them, life goes on!
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I’m hopeless at identifying birds, Andrew. I never made it to Boy Scout and I only had a couple of I-Spy books 🙂 🙂 I thought your travel writing had become more localised when I read the opener, but I forgot you’ve still got reams to write about.
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I have Cyprus to write up but then very little else with all of the restrictions getting more severe.
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We have wrens too, Andrew – but they are too nippy for our lenses.,
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They are quick, it relies on a lucky shot to capture them!
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Derrick’s robin Nugget is amazing, he’s totally taken up residence. We have birds that regularly alight on our terrace rails but I’m never quick enough to photograph them.
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The Wren (if it is indeed the same on) has been around for a couple of years.
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Wrens are one of the few birds we don’t have around here, Andrew. I think I have seen all of one. The bird of the day is a flicker. This is the time of year when they drum on dead logs to catch their lady-loves attention. He who drums the loudest wins the fair maiden. Unfortunately, our males have learned that drumming on the vents in our roof makes for much louder drumming. 🙂 From the inside, it sounds like someone is on our roof with a jackhammer! –Curt
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Annoying I am sure.
Reminded me of the story of the seagulls that nested on my roof…
https://aipetcher.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/the-seagull-has-landed/
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Our flickers are paragons of good behavior in comparison to your seagulls, Andrew. It was particularly humorous thinking about all of your neighbors watching your house through binoculars. 🙂 –Curt
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Wrens are so difficult to photograph but you have managed to take a lovely picture of your one!
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Thanks Clare. A lucky shot!
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🙂
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