I have a Wren in my yard!

[Donna]

I have never seen one but today this one showed up, eating, eating and filling up!

Carolina Wren, they say! I'm happy!!  Still snowing, maybe 6 inches, so far!!

[NoraH]

Is that ever neat Donna!  What is it eating, little pumpkins?

[Donna]

Is that ever neat Donna!  What is it eating, little pumpkins?

LOL Nora, it's eating seed inside the tins, the pumpkins are for weight! They are frozen pumpkins now! I love my new friend!!

[Bobbie Ireland]

Neat little critter! Don't they migrate? (Obviously this one did not...) Super to get a new bird on a snowy winter's day.

[carla]

 Years ago I had a wren nested in my garden.Love the little bird !

[Kris G.]

I saw my first and only Carolina Wren this past spring when we were in GA.  Neat that you have one and at this time of the year!  They're pretty birds-love their tails!

[marytyson]

They are indeed pretty.  In the very early spring the back, wings and tail are a lovely burnt siena, and the breast a yellowish buff color (the colors are a little duller right now). And they have a wonderful, sassy nature and really big song, too.  

Just outside the picture window in my kitchen there is an old holly bush that bears leaves on the outside, but few on the inside, where there are many good-sized bare intertwined branches -- good-sized for a tiny bird, that is.  There are usually two or three clutches of baby wrens in that bush each year, followed by a clutch or two of house sparrows, which makes for great birding for my two cats (on perches by the window) and me.

The holly bush is a great retreat for the young birds, who need it when the red-shouldered hawk fledglings from down the street are learning to hunt.  Every now and then a wren chick will pop up in the middle of the bush.  The adults use it as a staging area for the feeder.  Up in the middle, fly to one of the quoins on the corner of the house, check out the feeder, the maple and the Bradford Pear trees, fly to the feeder and back to the holly.  Whew!

Mary in Charlotte (NC)

[Donna]

Great story Mary, thanks. I have yet to see my Wren this morning!   

[Dumpsterkitty]

Apparently the edge of their winter range has moved north. Not long after I read Donna's post one showed up on my feeder ledge! (Sorry for the filthy window-been too cold to clean the outside)

   

[patsy6]

I have never seen one but today this one showed up, eating, eating and filling up!

Carolina Wren, they say! I'm happy!!  Still snowing, maybe 6 inches, so far!!

Awesome, and what a pretty bird it is!