There it is, the wren. Keep still. Breathe in. The tiny bird with stumpy tail has landed near the windowsill and moves from twig to stem as quietly as rain.
Feathered and breathing, it matches its portrait on the copper farthings of my childhood sixty years ago but look away and it has gone again from then to now.
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