Entertaining Wrens
It is not always easy to spot the tiny Wrens but if you are lucky to spot them, you will find them just amazing to watch especially in their breeding season when the males are busy keeping an eye on all his females. Most wrens are very small and very quick and when not breeding they can be hard to find. The Variegated Fairy-Wren below is so colourful especially the male. Their size is 11cm-14.5cm.They breed from July-Mar and a female will lay 3-4 eggs.
Their preferred habitat is shrub associations, undergrowth, margins of clearing, woodlands, heaths,sand plain and dune vegetation, coastal blackberry thickets, golf courses, orchards, parks and gardens.
The photo below is a male juvenile Red-Backed Fairy-Wren These are the smallest of the Fairy Wrens being just 10-13cm in size. They breed from Nov-Mar and the female will lay 3-4 eggs
He is such a little cutie
The image below is a female Red-Backed Fairy-Wren in flight.
Because these wrens breeding season ends in March, I will certainly be out there on the lookout for more opportunities to capture on camera these beautiful little birds