The house wren nest box is empty, but my heart is full. The annual wren nesting at Mt. Hoo has been a success. For seven years now a tiny camera has allowed my wife and I to watch this miracle ...

Head southwest to see a cactus wren.. Nests and Eggs. The male is serious about nest-building in spring, because it’s what helps him attract a mate. He starts constructing a few nests at once.

Most birds build some sort of nest where the eggs are incubated. In many species, ... In about 15 wren species, multiple nests are built within a male’s territory, ...

Wrens are known for a wide variety of nesting sites. I had a book as a child that told "Jenny" wren stories of nests in pockets of clothes hung to dry, in old tin cans, in a box in a garden shed.

Wren eggs are incubated by both the male and female and hatch quickly. Within a month after the eggs first appear, the young are fledging. Once the box is empty, the adult wrens may nest a second ...

The wren nest in the chickadee box came to a bad end, too, as it turns out. First there was an egg, and then there wasn’t an egg, which makes me think the rose thorns weren’t as much of a ...

When the wren finishes what it must think is “good enough,” he will fly off, perhaps to build another nest for another bird. His mate-in-waiting must now take over.

The third box, the one high in the rose arbor, held a mossy chickadee nest, carefully built on top of last year’s house wren nest. When I opened the box, the brooding female shot out the door. I ...

I have not heard the house wren singing since the day he arrived. He may have kept flying north. Even so, I won’t be checking the chickadee nest again.