Wren nesting in ivy---part two
by Rebecca King
(Hueytown, Al.)
Today is May 19th--nine days after I noticed my baby wrens had hatched.
After hearing chirping a lot louder than I had heard since they hatched I looked out the window to check what was going on.
There on the window sill was a baby wren and I knew they were leaving the nest. My dream of seeing them leave had come true.
I quickly went out to see one wren fly off the porch and the one that was on the windowsill was hopping towards the porch edge ready to follow. This was such a sweet moment.
I checked the nest and it was empty so I followed them to the fence in the backyard where they sat with their parents calling them to follow.
I watched as they led the babies to the back of our yard, a wooded area, and then I saw there were four in all.
The parents had fed them my crushed peanuts off and on while in the nest and I look forward to watching them in the coming weeks feed off my peanut feeder.
For you birders out there, other birds that enjoy peanuts are titmouse, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, woodpeckers and mockingbirds.
The mockingbirds will hog and chase others off so you may have to shoo them off at times.
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