My Bird Boxes
Brave new world
A mama wren made a nest in my hanging flower pot. I watched these beautiful babies grow from day to day and was there the moment they flew from the nest. I admit, I cried as they took those first steps to flight!!!
The wrens I saved!
10 days ago I found 6 naked house wren nestlings on the ground below their bird box. A predator had apparently tipped the box and dumped them out, and it must have been shortly before I found them. I put them back in the box and secured it. It’s nice to see that 5 of them survived.
Baby House Wrens Ready to Fledge
House wrens in my backyard
The wrens built a nest in the decorative birdhouse hanging on the back wall of my house, right by my back porch steps.
House Wren feeding the kids.
This shows one the House Wren parents coming to feed the kids.
House Wren feeds it’s babies
These are photos of a House Wren feeding it’s babies.
Nest box house wrenx
We have very persistent house wrens in our nest box. This box has been used by house sparrows a couple of years ago, last year we put a metal washer on the hole, so the house sparrows couldn’t make the hole bigger; this year a house wren staked claim to the box, and fought off a house sparrow earlier in the season. He has finally attracted a female; and there must be eggs in the box. They are very interesting birds, very pretty song. They should have plenty of insects to feed on with all the rain we’ve had; the mosquitoes will be all over here in a couple more days; It’s amazing how they can get sticks into the nest box which are larger than they are and turn them around so they fit through the hole. Over the past 5 years we have gradually added natural plants to our yard (replacing grass) and it’s amazing how many more birds, butterflies and dragonflies we now get. It just takes a little bit.
Successful House Wren Hatchings
First clutch in the birdhouse Samuel made
windblown house wren
This is the earliest a wren has ever started a nest in my 21 years of monitoring this trail.
Baby house wrens first appearance and fly the coop (late June, 2011)
45 minutes worth of edited footage (from 5 hours) of 3 baby house wrens making their first appearance and then flying the coop. I edited out sections when nothing happend. (This footage was ripped from a DVD. That is what caused it to be so blurry.)
House wrens nesting late in the season
House wrens are very busy feeding clutches often twice as large as bluebirds or tree swallows have.