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I know the picture is awful, but the only one I could get...



I think it's a Carolina wren.  It was on my feeding ledge and I've seen it before but I never really tried to figure out what kind of wren.  Today, with the GBBC, I finally thought to look in the book.  The only one with a really chestnut brown color, not many wing markings at rest & white eye stripe is the Carolina.

Opinions, please!

I know you can't really see the back here, but it is really reddish chestnut brown.

Your ID seems correct to me Ei! Good job! :2thumbsup:

Yep

I saw one in Austin TX over New Year's. I didn't know the bird, but wrote and asked people. I thought it was saying "Whittaker! Whittaker! Whittaker!" Paul H. answered that he guessed that what the creature was really holding forth about was "cheeseburger! cheeseburger! cheeseburger!"  Works for me. "If so," he continued,  "small, round, stick beak, stick tail, wants a cheeseburger -- Carolina Wren."
Cool round birdie.

They're extremely common here; they eat off my feeders all winter; they're especially fond of shelled peanuts, and they feast on bugs during the summer...poking their long beaks into cracks and crevices probably looking for delicious spiders and other creepy crawlies.  I suspect a C. Wren of murdering my favorite garden spider last fall as I saw him poking around the spider's favorite daytime hidey-hole...and the spider didn't make his usual evening appearance that night.

I'll confirm Carolina wren.  They like to perch somewhere to survey the territiry before they fly to the feeder.  Usually it's the quoins on the corner of my house (brick) where they can cling sideways.  The colors are distinctive:  breast is buff veering toward yellow, back is the burnt siena from your box of Crayolas.  We had a nest one year, in a wicker plant holder on the patio wall, in which they raised two clutches of babies.  It was at a height just about my eye level.

Mary in Charlotte (North Carolina)

ooh. I sure would like to see those babies.

Do you have any pictures, Mary?

My sister had Carolina Wren babies in her boat under the tarp. Here's a pic of them

Thanks everyone!  Then, of course, it was confirmed when I woke up this morning to one singing on the ledge outside my window.  The description is right...they are LOUD!

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/carolina_wren/id (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/carolina_wren/id)

 :clap:

  I agree, it's a Carolina Wren.  I have one that visited my feeder in December.  He/she
  comes off and on now.

And just to round out the discussion, I finally got a reasonable (at an angle through double pane glass) picture this morning!

oh gosh they have the same funny mouths as my barn swallow babies used to have!

All these babies are beautiful!  :happy:

definitely similar dale!