Wrens - east coast of Scotland (1 Viewer)

[TomMalcC]

Sorry no photos…..
Today I saw what I initially thought to be a British wren hopping around on rocks of the Firth of Forth estuary. A common enough sight. However it seemed much paler than the usual wrens I see here. Also seemed bigger than our ‘normal’ wrens. Looking at wren variations I seeing European wrens are occasional winter visitors to UK and are paler. Is this likely?

TomC

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

Fairly unlikely would be my view. First because Wrens aren't generally long distant migrants so not many come here from Europe. Secondly because the Wrens most likely to appear different in the field would be darker (Shetland, Fair Isle, Faroes), the difference between mainland British and European races isn't particularly marked.