Realistic tattoo of a small blue and brown wren with a long tail on the inner wrist and forearm.

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Blue wren on the inner wrist

Realism · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A small wren perches on the inner wrist, with its long tail extending along the forearm. The bird has a bright blue head and throat, a dark grey-brown body and soft shading that gives it a rounded, feathered look. The photo is taken in natural light against a grey carpet, with the arm filling the frame and the hand visible at the right.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Shush now, and pass the bottle along, and mind the sand in your collars. This one's about the little blue bird that lived in the banksia scrub above Cape Lorne. Nobody saw him unless he wanted seeing. He was no bigger than a thumb, he carried his tail cocked up behind him like a folded sail, and every morning he sang from the top of the old signal post before the boats went out.

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Now, the fisherman's girl, Ada Mercer, had a father who wouldn't let her near the boats after her brother went under off the reef. So she sat on the cliff with a tin of bread crusts and waited for the wren, because he was the only thing on the island that never asked her to be brave. Every day he came down and took a crumb from her palm, quick as a thought, and every day he sang a little longer before he left.

Then came the winter the storms wouldn't stop. The boats stayed tied up for six weeks, and the men sat in the pub saying the sea had taken its share and was greedy for more. Ada climbed the signal post in the rain to see if the wren was still alive. She found him tucked in a crack of the timber with his feathers puffed to twice their size, and he didn't fly. So she sat with him until the wind dropped, and when the sun came back he went up like a spark and sang from the highest point on the island, loud enough that the men came out onto the headland to look.

They say the boats went out the next morning, and Ada's father rowed beside her for the first time in years. I'm not saying the bird did it. I'm saying he sang, and somebody listened, and to this day that blue on his head is the only colour left on the headland after dark.