Baby House Wren

by Stev
(Farmerville, Louisiana, USA)

I came home from work to find my wife and children had "rescued" a fledgling house wren.

They had caged it and were trying to feed it some "baby bird food" they'd made from an internet recipe.

To make matters worse my wife had found the nest and ripped it up to put in the cage. I showed them this site and they took it back to the tree it was found in and the parents found it almost immediately.

We sat and watched as the baby, it's siblings and parents all made their way across the yard to the woods.