Wren – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
Wrens are such beautiful birds. They are so quick, so elusive and so secretive it’s a delight to see one appear from the undergrowth. Forty years ago I spotted one and wrote about it in my nature notebook:
![Wren - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) 2016 David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Wren-The-Hall-of-Einar-photograph-c-2016-David-Bailey-not-the.jpg)
Today I’m just as delighted to see a Wren, so elusive and secretive. It’s bobbing about in the undergrowth. I can tell it’s a Wren from a distance because of its upwards pointing tail.
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Wrens are so hard to see it’s difficult to believe that the Wren is the UK’s most common bird with 8.5 million breeding pairs.
I still need to work on getting a good photograph of a Wren, but I’m getting closer. Here’s my drawing of a Wren from when I was 13 years old:
![Wren - Nature Notebooks from 1976 - drawing (c) 2016 David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1-Nature-Notebooks_0001.jpg)