During the ice storm of 1994? Carolina Wrens and Eastern Bluebirds took a huge hit. It took at least 5 years for the bluebird boxes at Patterson Park in Calvert to come back up to snuff. The bluebird trail here at SERC in Edgewater has been cranking out EABLs in increasing numbers the last several years since they put up the boxes. I have a bad feeling that those numbers will be decimated this year. I used to see EABLs perched on the wires along Contees Wharf Rd. and quite a few within the SERC complex but have only seen a few here and there. 

Not sure about the wren status here but I've encountered them each time I'm out in the field and around campus as well.
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland 



> >--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Georgia McDonald <> wrote:
> >
> >From: Georgia McDonald <>
> >Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Carolina Wrens
> >To: 
> >Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:57 AM
> >
> >We have not seen or heard our yard pair of Carolina Wrens since 
> >Snowmageddon. We have had similar losses every few winters and 
> >eventually, another pair finds our yard.
> >
> >On our last walk at Cromwell Valley Park, we only heard one Carolina Wren.
> >Georgia McDonald Towson, Balt Co
> >
> >
> >Bob Ringler wrote:
> >> The severity of the winter was the culprit then also. It will be 
> >>interesting to see if we find similar declines this year.
> >>
                        
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