Wren Walk

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A Wren Walk in the Wallum

My Wallum walking friend and I
decide to take some wallum loops
today for a change
and walk through the Eucalpytus forest
before returning to the Wallum












As we enter
the wallum bird corner
a little tweeting alerts us













A Superb Blue Wren
flashes through
the low woody growth
and then another
and another...


The female wren is all brown
and would stay still long enough
for me to
capture her












She is tiny
a mere 14cm in total
6cm of which is tail
so only about 3" long

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The male Superb Blue Wren
was too elusive for me
so I have borrowed
these superb images
to match the bird

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The wrens aren't wonderful fliers
they keep to the woodland scrub
nesting near the ground
living in family groups

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Their diet is mainly insects
and they have a sweet little trill
Listen here for:

song 1 males


song 2 family group


song 3 feeding young

After our excitement
at sighting the little wrens
which are considered rare
we walk on
under the wallum skies

noticing the clouds above
speeding across the blue

while the clouds
show it is windy way above
down below
in the Wallum
in windless still we walk
our footfalls silent
in the silver sand

Banksia wallum skies

we are about to exit the wallum
at Sunshine Beach

by these lilies

in a beachside garden...












Oh windy
and wonderful of days...







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