PHOTOS: Busy bird builds six nests to impress potential mate

By Bradley Stokes via SWNS

A busy male wren is captured frantically building SIX nests in a bid to woo a female mate in time for the spring breeding season.

The remarkable pictures show the male bird gathering moss, leaves and twigs as it carefully constructs the most attractive love nest.

A time-lapse shot at 60fps captures the wren at dusk leaping from a perch with a beakful of moss.

Wildlife photographer Andrew, 56, captured the images outside his kitchen window at his home in Lydbury North, England on March 2.

A male wren gathers dead leaves and moss to build its nest in the garden of wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters. (Andrew Fusek Peters via SWNS)

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He said: "The male wren was just sitting there outside our kitchen window. They are surprisingly common - I think there about five million in the UK.

"Often, many people do not notice them because they are really small - one of the smallest in the UK.

"The interesting thing that this wren does is build five or six nests - which must be a lot of hard work - to try and impress the female.

"If the female likes him, she'll choose what she considers the best nest. It is amazing.

"It must be laborious work for the male to do, but what is really amazing is I was sat next to where the wren was landing.

“They are very used to human beings. In fact, he probably didn't even know I was there.

"The one shot with him with autumn leaves for new life in spring, is amazing.

"They only live for a couple of years - they have to survive a lot of tough winters and predators. It is a dangerous life for them."

Andrew shot the collection of images with his Olympus OM1 Camera which helped picture an amazing time-lapse photo.

He added: "It is showing the bird flying through the air in the space of about a tenth of a second.

"The modern technology, and my many years of study bird behavior, means I can capture things that nobody has ever seen before. I have never seen a sequence like that before."