Biggest noise!

[smallblueplanet]

Lol! I can hear that two tiny wrens have started their 'courtship' behaviour? One of the smallest of birds yet the biggest of sounds! Looks funny if you see them singing, tiny beak opens and closes and out comes this really loud chirping!

Saw one of them this morning hanging upside down in the small rosebush picking off insects - perhaps greenfly on the new shoots, have already squished some g/fly off some clematis shoots.

I think they're one of my favourite birds, but boy are they noisey!

[Paul Wagland]

I love to see starlings singing - the range of sounds they make is incredible. Jeannine told me they are born with a basic 'language' of sounds, but that these sounds vary geographically as if they had a regional dialect!

On top of this they are superb mimics, and will learn extra songs as they grow up, based on things like doorbells or mobile phone ring tones!

[jeannine]

A wren flew into my car once when the boot was open (the back was full of plants) and I had to open all the doors and walk away until it flew out again.

Will they nest in your garden Manda? It would be fantastic to see a fledgeling wren, they must be tiny.

[smallblueplanet]

They nest in next doors open porch (in the roof bit somewhere) apparently. Ironic really as she doesn't like birds (the fluttering I think) but he does, so thats okay. On that 'where to put birds nests' link I posted in reply to your question, there's even a woodcrete wrens nest - its cute so had to have one! But the wrens still aren't keen. Oh well time will tell, they often come feeding in our borders and pots on the patio.

- well who wouldn't buy one?

[Snadger]

I aint no ornithologist but I really enjoy the sound of the 'morning chorus' as I always sleep with the window open.
Doesn't really matter to me that they have me awake two or three hours before I NEED to get up!

[Headfry]

I love to hear 'hooty' owls and will stand out in the cold for ages just to listen. Bliss

[scarey55]

We have a wren that has just taken up residence in an old swallows nest one of our out buildings.

It just so happens to be the place I have just re-designated as a gardening tool store though. Imagine my surprise as a wren flew out when I went in to get my gardening fork yesterday - I guess the fork will have to go back somewhere else until "The Wren family" have moved out now

[scarey55]

On top of this they are superb mimics, and will learn extra songs as they grow up, based on things like doorbells or mobile phone ring tones!

I swear I saw one doing an impression of an ambulance siren once but no one believed me - the men in white coats are on their way...

[smallblueplanet]

Oh fab news scarey55, will they stay? 'The male wren makes more than one nest and the female chooses one and lines it' (Oxford 'Birdwatchers Handbook') - pictures of the family soon & later please!

[Headfry]

Scarey55 please give us some updates on your new friends!

[Birdie Wife]

Another fascinating factoid about wrens... they have communal roosts in the winter time to conserve warmth, and often roost together in old bird boxes. The maximum number found in a roost so far is 60! All in one bird box!!

[shirlthegirl43]

Another fascinating factoid about wrens... they have communal roosts in the winter time to conserve warmth, and often roost together in old bird boxes. The maximum number found in a roost so far is 60! All in one bird box!!

Blimey, I wouldn't want to be the one at the bottom!

[jacob marley]

Another fascinating factoid about wrens... they have communal roosts in the winter time to conserve warmth, and often roost together in old bird boxes. The maximum number found in a roost so far is 60! All in one bird box!!

Our house has a single storey kitchen on the back and in the winter just before it gets dark we watch the Wrens running along the rail that the hanging baskets hang on and they go under the kitchen roof 20 or so some nights .
Sbp i think i have noisier birds than you this is the time of the year that the WoodPecker do's his head banging job last week it was 7.30 am this week it is 7.15 in april it will be about 6.30 ish in a Oak tree about 35 yards from bedroom window it beats an alarm jacob

[smallblueplanet]

Good job you wanted to be awake that early jacob! Oh yeah wait for the martins to come back and start nesting they seem to start their 'chattering & twittering' very early in the morning - I love 'em.

[Flummery]

I think our loudest noise is the resident blackbird 'swearing' at a neighbouring cat! It often happens at dusk - suspect the cat ges kicked out then, and the bird swoops low yelling at the top of her beak!