Alarm clock grows new tail

This morning at 7, the usual chirps told me that Renault was in the bedroom. We named the house wren for the fact that after the cat encountered him and removed his tail, he became Wren-No-Tail, shortened to Wren-No, which is spelled Renault in French. Circular? You’re right. He’s obviously not afraid of the cat depicted in the little stained glass piece hanging in the window; perhaps it’s too abstract.

He has been back every morning for about a month now, flitting and chirping to get us up to let him out through one of the roof windows.

Here he poses right before taking flight out to the big world. He has been working on replacing his tail, and it’s now about half the length it was when he first appeared to us.