I couldn't really believe what I was seeing. It appeared to be very young Carolina Wrens! Like not out of the nest too long.
August is almost over, these seem to be a very late brood. I definitely had 2 chicks here, both missing tails. Since they haven't had time to grow in yet.
A more familiar sound began coming from the vegetation and out popped one of the adult wrens.
The other parent was up higher in the tree and had found a caterpillar which it quickly fed to one of the chicks before returning to the hunt. Once I thought about it, I do recall an earlier brood this year so our wrens are doing very well. I also love that they show little fear around me.
Wonder what else is out there?
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CI was lucky enough to have a pair of wrens nest in a wall hanging clay pot full of impatiens right outside my bedroom patio door this summer. The nest looked like a tunnel down into the pot. They were so quiet for those few weeks that I wondered if the parents had maybe abandoned the nest....then one day, mama suddenly perched a few feet away on a branch and began singing her heart out - you could hear that she wanted something - and one by one, all her little ones (5!) popped out of the nest. Hard to believe that that quiet, tiny little nest held 5 baby birds!
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