Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:40:40 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: Wren nest question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you leave the watering can there they will probably not abandon their nest. I have actually replaced bluebird nests with the young in it because of blue-fly infestation. I make a new nest and put the babies back. The parents come back within minutes after I put the box back up. I take the whole thing, babies included, into the basement to replace the nest. I also open the box every day to check the babies or eggs and I have never had one abandoned. I don't know if Wrens will act the same way and whether the fa=ct that they have eggs in it or not matters. How far along is the nest in it='s building stage? If it is fairly early you might consider hanging a nestin=g box in the same spot and even use the nest they have started. I think you='d have a fairly good chance that they would return. BUT I think leaving the watering can there this year would yield the best chance. You should know= by tomorrow morning if they are going to stick around or not, if not by now. Please anyone correct me wrong in assuming that Wrens will behave similar=ly to bluebirds in terms of their tolerance for people monitoring their nest= s. I'm think it's an old wives tale that if you touch a nest they will not return. I do it for the bluebirds because I am helping them out. I have saved numerous bluebird's lives this way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Beal" To: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 4:17 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Wren nest question > Went to get the watering can to plant some peas today. I had left it i=n the > woods, upside-down, on a branch over the winter. As I picked it up I noticed > several Carolina Wrens making a very quiet noise, hard to describe. I soon > noticed there was nest in the can. I replaced the watering can with a wren > watching me. > Question- do you think they will abandon the nest? > Question 2- There seemed to be more than two wrens "scolding" me. Are they a > species that get help from last years juveniles in raising a brood this year? > > Tom Beal > Glenn Dale, MD > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================