Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: BetCrooks on September 02, 2015, 04:46:39 PM

Title: Wren?
Post by: BetCrooks on September 02, 2015, 04:46:39 PM

As usual, I spotted this Wren just as it finished popping up on a dead log and snacking, after which it promptly dove back down into a tangle of goldenrod and dead logs.

This was at Riverwood Conservancy, along the Credit River in Mississauga.

There are definitely House Wrens in this specific meadow area, including a pair that nested nearby earlier in the summer.

Is this also a House Wren? It seemed more Winter Wren-like but that might well be my migration-inspired imagination.

Any opinions on its identity would be appreciated so I don't have to submit it to eBird as wren, sp.

Sorry that it's another of  my fabulous shots. A good lens does not make a good photographer...

[attachment=0:35v2nn5k]WrenRiverwoodConservancySept2.jpg[/attachment:35v2nn5k]

Title: Re: Wren?
Post by: JW Mills on September 03, 2015, 07:44:55 AM

I'd say Winter Wren due to the stubby tail and barring on the flanks.

Title: Re: Wren?
Post by: BetCrooks on September 03, 2015, 04:54:02 PM

Thanks for the info!