It’s cold, it’s wet and summer is a distant memory. And with the colder season comes a challenging time for all sorts of living things that visit our gardens , including one of the most well-known and popular birds in the UK.

Wrens may not get the Christmas card appeal of the red-breasted robin, but they are one of the most well-known, well-liked and commonly spotted birds in British gardens and like the robin, they stay here over the winter . With the cold and damp and even snowy weather the UK has been battling this December, wrens will be finding it more difficult to find food as insect numbers start to drop off and wild berries begin to disappear too.

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