Carolina Wren Nesting In Chimenea

by Lora
(Ravenna, OH)

We have a cabin just south of Woodsfield, Ohio and were delightfully surprised when we went to do our first mowing for the season to find that we had a family of Carolina Wren's living in our chimenea.

I began video taping them on my breaks from mowing the fields. It was a fun way to spend beaks watching mom and dad flying in and out to feed their young.

The real surprise came Sunday afternoon while I was cleaning up around the cabin to go back home. I took another look out the door and saw a little one hanging on the the top of the screen at the hole.

I grabbed my video camera just in time to tape them coming out of the nest. They each in turn clung to the outside of the chimenea, kind of sliding down then working their way back up towards the top of the chimenea.

After watching them trying to spread their wings in an awkward dance, they each in turn took flight. First to the ground, then to a close tree, then off into the woods to join their parents.

This was my first time to see such a site and I hope to one day get to see this again. It gave me a feeling if for only a monent in time that all was right in the world.