House Wren

My resident house wren successfully fledged two different broods in two different nesting boxes this summer.

First successful nesting in June

The first brood was in a traditional nest box designed for chickadees or wrens. Wrens arrive around May 5th here in Minnesota. This brood fledged at the end of June.

Adult bringing in an insect to feed

The male wren then starting singing incessantly again to attract a female to his new nesting location which happen to be a bird art mask hanging on my patio. He was successful in using this creative location to raise a second family which just fledged five days ago.

Adult wren leaving the owl mask home with a fecal sac to keep the nest clean

Wren fledging having just left the nest - trying to figure out all the new sights and sounds.

I took the owl mask down to see how the nest was constructed. In the nest cup, I found one unhatched wren egg!

Wren nests are easy to identify with the amount of twigs they use to surround the nest bowl.