Life In The Slow Lane
That’s what the baby house wrens are saying every time I am around the nest box. Feed me mamma! Or pappa, doesn’t matter, just FEED ME!
The babies are about 12 days old now, and starting to grow feathers and look more like the birds they will soon become.
This will be the last time I open [...]
Posted in Nature on Jun 11th, 2010
They grow up so fast! The young wrens are now one week old, and starting to look like birds. I count at least 5 beaks in the nest, but there are probably one or two more. I’m keeping my visits very brief to avoid disturbing the birds any more than necessary.
These are house wrens, and [...]
Posted in Nature, Photography on Jun 4th, 2010
I normally visit the fine feathered folks at Curbstone Valley to have a Fowl Friday, but this Friday we have one of our own to celebrate.
It seems that sometime in the last 20 hours or so the baby wrens have hatched. There were seven eggs, but I haven’t been able to do a head count [...]
Posted in Nature on May 21st, 2010
I’ve been hoping to attract bluebirds to the nesting boxes at Happy Acres since we moved here three years ago. The bluebirds were here checking out the boxes earlier this year, but apparently someone else beat them to it.
I’ve been pretty sure we had wrens taking up residence, since I kept seeing decoy nests in [...]
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