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!

A Wren's Tale: Postscript

 On a Sunday, I set myself up to photograph the babies again...I waited for about 20 minutes and no activity at all at the nest. Hmmm...

Then I went into the garage to do some laundry, and I heard frantic, loud cheeping, which I thought was coming from the roof, so I went outside to look. Nope. I went back inside and found this little fledgling hanging onto the roll-up garage door for dear life. (Insert eyeroll and crying emojis.) B. had left the garage door (not the roll-up one) open for just a minute or two while he retrieved a ladder. This little dude apparently flew in (but WHY?!), the door closed, and he/she was stuck. No parent or siblings anywhere around. We tried to shoo it out of the garage, but of course it panicked and flew all around, finally bonking its head on the window. Sigh. We took it outside and let it recover.

So tiny and cute!

 Finally it hopped, then flew onto the fence. Then it flew further onto the fence. Then it flew into a tree, then onto the  garage roof, then onto the potting shed roof, then onto the neighbor's roof, and finally away. It was cheeping/crying for its parents the entire time...

 Fly free, little one!

A Wren's Tale: Part V

 Now they look like real baby birds...and they stick their heads all the way out when the food delivery arrives.

 And we have poop at the entrance (ewww...)

A Wren's Tale: Part IV

 Even bigger and hungrier...

Someone's foot!

A Wren's Tale: Part III

 Look at the little babies hanging out in there!

 Getting bigger and hungrier...