Wren (troglodytes troglodytes)

The wren is a very small (9cm) bird with a very loud ‘tit, tit, tit’ call. It is reddish-brown with a short, cocked tail. It hides and flits in a fast, direct way with its short, rounded wings. It sometimes looks like it's a clockwork bird!

To impress the female, the male makes, not one, but several ball-shaped nests in hedges, ivy, old pots, buildings etc. The female then inspects them all and chooses just one of them in which to lay 5-8 white, speckled eggs.

Wrens like to eat insects and spiders as they flit from place to place.