Chickadees raised a brood in a wren box hanging in the front yard this  
spring.  Today the grass was littered with the fur lining of the nest. A  house 
wren was pulling it out.  The chickadees were scolding loudly.   Will they use 
the same nest again?  Will be interesting to see if the wren  builds a nest or, 
as their wont, was just being destructive.
 
 
 
Tom  Beal
Glenn Dale, MD
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ps- One of the chicks fell out of the nest a few weeks ago. What a tough  
little cuss. We would have never noticed it, but it hissed at us from about five  
feet away. When I picked it up, boy did it try to intimate  me!