I have a family of wrens as well. They sing all morning long. Although all the birds were very quiet the other day when the air quality was in the danger zone. It was creepy.
Thank you Diane. We have another pair of wrens moving into the same nest box that fledged the wrens in the essay. It looks like we will get to watch another round of young wrens leave the nest later this summer.
What a sweet story of the baby wrens. This reminds me of a beautiful story by Higel Hinton, The Heart of the Vally of a Dunnock called the hedge sparrow. The story covers a year and a half and her crossings with other critters and birds of a feather. Keep us updated on our little wren friends. Thank you,
The young wrens are growing up fast. They look and act like much more like the adults now. Their tales have grown out and they scold me just like their parents when I encounter them in the yard. They spend quite a bit of time in dense cover and their parents are still feeding them. I am glad to still have them hanging out in the yard. At some point they are going to disperse and things will get quieter around here.
In San Diego, house and Bewick's wrens aren't seasonal. They are a constant presence. You can hear them almost anywhere you go, usually the Bewick's first, rasping back and forth to each other in the brush. In fact, I hear one now out my window! A rare visitor to my yard, they happen to live a few hundred feet away, out of ear shot.
That sounds nice to have wrens all year long. Here in Illinois we have Carolina Wrens most of the year, but they are more aloof than House Wrens. We often hear the Carolina Wrens in the woods, but do not see them up close like the House Wrens.
I just love seeing our cat, Tomoko, in the window. She is such a fierce hunter of birds from behind a window! Ha ha!
I have a family of wrens as well. They sing all morning long. Although all the birds were very quiet the other day when the air quality was in the danger zone. It was creepy.
This is a fine tribute to the loveliness of House Wrens. Especially baby ones.
Thank you Diane. We have another pair of wrens moving into the same nest box that fledged the wrens in the essay. It looks like we will get to watch another round of young wrens leave the nest later this summer.
What a sweet story of the baby wrens. This reminds me of a beautiful story by Higel Hinton, The Heart of the Vally of a Dunnock called the hedge sparrow. The story covers a year and a half and her crossings with other critters and birds of a feather. Keep us updated on our little wren friends. Thank you,
The young wrens are growing up fast. They look and act like much more like the adults now. Their tales have grown out and they scold me just like their parents when I encounter them in the yard. They spend quite a bit of time in dense cover and their parents are still feeding them. I am glad to still have them hanging out in the yard. At some point they are going to disperse and things will get quieter around here.
In San Diego, house and Bewick's wrens aren't seasonal. They are a constant presence. You can hear them almost anywhere you go, usually the Bewick's first, rasping back and forth to each other in the brush. In fact, I hear one now out my window! A rare visitor to my yard, they happen to live a few hundred feet away, out of ear shot.
That sounds nice to have wrens all year long. Here in Illinois we have Carolina Wrens most of the year, but they are more aloof than House Wrens. We often hear the Carolina Wrens in the woods, but do not see them up close like the House Wrens.