Bird House Feeder

This bird house hangs on the back patio of my home. A little wren decided to make it her home and layed 4 tiny eggs in it. Once the eggs hatched, she worked very diligently to feed the new babies! She would find a bug or insect and approach the patio very cautiously then “chirp” to let the babies know she was near, and after careful watch, she would dart in and drop of the catch. This literally went on for all daylight hours of the day for many days. Simply Amazing!!!

The Blue Jay is frequenting the feeder now! Many baby birds learning to fly are there getting lessons from parents. I have some close ups of them. There is also a new visitor at feed station, a House Sparrow.

Video of house wrens taking care of their nest. We installed a plexiglass back on a store-bought bird house and placed it up against a window.

there’s this bird house that was on my porch,and a little wren lived in it.but this morning,i saw that it had fallen on the ground,and a little baby bird was in it.i put the bird house back up where it was before.but im not sure the mama bird will come back.what do i do? i dont want to let the little baby bird die if the mama doesnt come back!

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (www.youtube.com

A little wren decides that the bird house I made is appropriate. It gets very busy in trying to haul in nesting materials. My cats are very amused.

Photographed at the Rydell NWR, Minnesota (23 June 2009).

more House Wrens in the backyard using a video camera & spotting scope to get very closeup views Plus you can see the baby Wren now

This is an excerpt from Wikipedia re St Stephen’s Day: In Irish it is called Lá Fhéile Stiofán or Lá an Dreoilín — the latter translates literally as another English name used, the Day of the Wren or Wren’s Day. When used in this context, “wren” is often pronounced “ran”. This name alludes to several legends, including those found in Ireland linking episodes in the life of Jesus to the wren. Although now mostly a discontinued tradition, in certain parts of Ireland persons carrying either an effigy of a wren or an actual caged wren [live or dead], travel from house to house playing music, singing and dancing. Depending on which region of the country, they are called Wrenboys and Mummers. A Mummer’s Festival is held at this time every year in the village of New Inn, Co. Galway and Dingle Co. Kerry. St Stephen’s Day is also a popular day for visiting family members. A popular rhyme, known to many Irish children and sung at each house visited by the mummers is The Wren Song (this version popularized by the Irish group The Clancy Brothers). There is a similar tradition in the Isle of Man where the song Hunt The Wren is the Manx equivalent. See: www.youtube.com