Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:48:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Fallon Subject: Re: Wren nest question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have had Carolina Wrens at my house for each of the 21 years I've lived here. While we never actually moved a nest, the wrens sometimes have had to put up with a lot. One year they nested in the mail box. We put up an alternate box, but one day a substitute carrier stuffed the mail into the regular box, crushing the nest. Nonetheless, the young survived, we reconstructed the nest, and they went on to fledge. Fred Fallon Bowie MD Tom Beal wrote: > > Went to get the watering can to plant some peas today. I had left it in 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================