oldlady Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 last fall, i gave a bucket of chinese red glaze to a friend. i just wanted to show him what i had done with the glaze so i got the ladder out and climbed up to show him the birdhouse i made and hung last year. i knew it was empty because i had opened it last week and saw that it had been used. there was a beautiful hollow circle of twigs and feathers about the size of a golf ball. got one shot and then opened the top to show the interior and surprised us both. quietly clicked the camera above my head and took my ladder and went away. surprise! when i used "fix" on my computer, i saw the baby bird mouth in the first shot! i know that a wren used the nest because the birdhouse is tiny, the opening is tiny and the bird is really tiny. glad i hung it there! these are reversed, the first one should be second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrim8 Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Nice bird house! I love wrens, they sing so nice. We have a family of them in a small wooden birdhouse right now too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dricherson Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 That's really cool! Love the house and the color. My husband set his cowboy boots outside in a chair and a wren quickly built a nest in one of them! Put an umbrella over it :-). They have hatched and should be gone in a few more days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Nice bird house, right now I have wrens that live in my honeysuckle vine and make a mess all over a bench. They love the grape jelly that I feed the orioles. I wonder If I made them a birdhouse if they would move into it. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 wrens like to fill up any cavities that might entice other birds to move in too close to the wrens. and their babies return to the house for some time after they begin to fly. yesterday, the mother scolded my dog for walking into her yard. thanks for the grape jelly idea! that is a new one on me. i have tried fruit but it just goes bad and nobody eats it. i rarely see orioles. i am going to try to post the picture that has the baby bird mouth showing in the opening. tried before and just made two entries instead of one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mss Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 I made a stoneware birdhouse and wrens have nested 2 years, and chickadees one year. The wrens do like to scold you for being nearby. I do have to keep it in deep shade to avoid cooking the babies (also in KS). For the right dimensions (especially the size of the opening), check out this information from Audubon. http://audubonportland.org/files/sanctuaries/nestbox . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted June 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 thank you, mss, i was just going to an audubon site for dimensions. i seem to have misplaced my 1 inch cutter so i used a 3/4 drill bit and knocked it around to make the hole a little bigger and slightly un-round, askew, or a-something not quite round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrgpots Posted June 29, 2016 Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 wrens like to fill up any cavities that might entice other birds to move in too close to the wrens. and their babies return to the house for some time after they begin to fly. yesterday, the mother scolded my dog for walking into her yard. Years ago we had a pair of wrens claim our enclosed atrium. We left a small upper window open. The window had no screen. So once the nest was made, we did not close the window until all the wrens left the nest an didn't return at night... The music was great. They sang as we ate breakfast. Watering the atrium plants was not so easy. The nest was in an old discarded pot. Jed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rae Reich Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 Sweet! You got that baby just right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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