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Offline Smokin Don

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Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« Reply #-1 on: May 19, 2015, 11:21:46 PM »
May 19 2015

This spring I have had some good back yard bird watching. I saw a pair of Robbins build a nest, hatch eggs and raise four babies. Then my first hummingbird showed up May the 1st. I have two feeders on each side of a honeysuckle bush. I kept noting Robbins fly into the bush and they have a nest in there. I won’t be able to watch this one.

I built a wren house about 20 some years ago and had it hanging in a tree behind the house. It has a slide out floor so I can clean it and tried to clean it every fall. I had several nests over the years but it was behind the house where I could not see it when I sit out. Two years ago it blew down and was coming apart. I fixed it up and hung it on a hook on my redwood privacy fence and it looked nice hanging there. I never got any wrens in it last summer.

A week or so ago I started seeing a tiny Wren visit the house and it started carrying twigs in. I read that the male builds the nest from small twigs; then the female inspects it and may remove some unwanted twigs and then lines it with smaller softer material.

I sat yesterday some trying for some pics of it but no luck. I think I was sitting too close; I did see it once on the fence with a mouth full of twigs. I sat on my smoke deck today about 30 feet from the birdhouse and got some decent shots of it. Pretty sure it was the female carrying small grass like material. If I am lucky I may get to see one of the babies leaving the nest. It takes 12 to 19 days for the eggs to hatch with only the female setting on them. It takes another 15 to 19 days for the babies to fledge.

The first three shots were from one visit and the others from a second visit

















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Re: Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« on: May 19, 2015, 11:50:59 PM »
Cool pictures Don!
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Re: Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2015, 11:56:49 PM »
Beautiful pictures!
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Re: Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2015, 04:50:55 AM »
Great photos Don!
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Re: Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2015, 11:43:03 AM »
Don, love the pics.

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Re: Watching a Pair of House Wrens
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2015, 02:30:26 PM »
Great pics Don!
I think house wrens are my favorite birds to watch.