House Hunter

 

This adorable little Bewick's wren was busily inspecting these birdhouses, which are mostly decorative and on a table, so not the best place to make a nest...

Wrensday

Little Bewick's wren bopping about...

Checking It Out

 

A little Bewick's wren--the same kind of bird that, with his mate, raised two chicks in a decorative birdhouse outside our bedroom window last month--is checking out THIS decorative birdhouse. I think he rejected it, because he is now back at the birdhouses outside our window (there are three); I don't know if it is the same bird... they are so tiny and cute! (Please excuse the cobwebs...you remove them and they are back in a day or two!)

Cuteness

 

How adorable is this Bewick's wren? I mean... 

Prospective Tenants

 

We are pretty sure a pair of Bewick's wrens are building a nest inside one of the (mostly) decorative birdhouses that hang in the tree right outside our bedroom window. Here is one with some lovely nesting material (I know it looks like an insect, but it is vegetation of some sort). 

In that first COVID summer, we had house wrens who raised a clutch in a little ceramic pinecone-shaped birdhouse (also outside our window). It was amazing to watch the entire process. Such busy little parents!

Backyard Bird Bonanza

   It was a day for birds I haven't seen before in the backyard.

A Bewick's wren (which I have heard many times but never seen before).

A song sparrow.

And what I think is a female orange-crowned warbler. 

Finches and towhees and hummingbirds, too! A good bird day!