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Baby Wrens

4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
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Taken today 7/16/20. One on right is covering up one blue egg. These are the ones with brown spot on top of head. I put old cuckoo clock up at end of deck and they started to build in it but changed their mind halfway thru. They preferred small blue spruce that BIL gave me for 50th Anniversary six years ago. They are shy today i guess. Will try for heads up pic tomorrow.
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  • Chief ShawayChief Shaway Member, Moderator Posts: 6,290 ******
    I have a family living in a birdhouse on my porch. 
    My dad used to hang his old work boots in the rafters of our shed and the wrens would always build nests in them. 
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭✭
    How can anyone look at the total helplessness of those babies and not see the Lord at work??  How anything that fragile and delicate can not only exist but thrive is amazing and miraculous!! 
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭✭
    Always set 2 wren houses out every spring.  Always get wrens.  Noisy in the early am's but neat little birds :)
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  • spasmcreeksrunspasmcreeksrun Member Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭
    we got a wren house easy to watch on deck....busy little buggers ...mucho fun



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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
    Triplets, third one hatched. Will try to get pic tomorrow when they are super hungry.
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
    Yellow finches favorite food is Thistle Seed.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭✭
    In late winter we will have wild canaries (American Goldfinches) at our thistle seed feeder in numbers that are uncountable.  They move so fast around the feeder that you try to count them and fail every time.  I count as fast as I can but by the time I get to 30 they change positions enough I have to start over.   They are in their winter colors but still a beautiful sight!! 
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
    Sorry to say only one baby left in nest today. Believe it is largest one. Heat and humidity unbearable today. 96 degrees in shade on deck. Crows are know for robbing nest but suspect heat got them. Anyone know if parents remove babies after they die?
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
    The meek shall inherit the Earth and the strong here on GBGD like this little fella will survive. He has his feathers now.
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,696 ✭✭✭✭

    Barn swallows moved in last year on my deck. Five babies, all survived and left. Back this year, 5 for 5 again.

    Have a second batch going with four in the nest. I don't know if same set of parents or if I have Democrats.

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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭✭
    I realize they have 2 or 3 hatches a summer.   Anyone know if they reuse the bird houses they had their first hatch in?  And do the houses need to be cleaned out to before they would reuse them?  
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2020
    I had a pair nesting in a chimney block cavity under a mobile home i had about 15 years ago in Virginia. Soon as the first family flew the coop mom and dad tidied up the nest for the second set of eggs.

    I always clean out the Blue birds nest in Va. before winter sets in. They seem to enjoy building a new nest from scratch in the spring.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    I have several House Wren nest around the house.  I love to hear their chattering & wobble song.  I built some nest boxes for them, and the come back every year.  They can be pretty territorial, and are quick to challenge other birds & Wrens that come near their nest. 
    Trinity +++ 
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