Have a pair of these wrens in the garden. They nested here last year. Took this today. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) [/img]
I hope your pair of wrens will mate and set up home in your garden again this year. Our wrens aren't monogamous as the male can have more than one nesting female taking care of his offsping. He will abandon the first female once he finds another partner and only helps the second one rear her brood. Not exactly good husband material.
So cute. I had wrens nest in my allotment shed about 3 years ago, they got in through a broken window. They decided to build their cute nest on my rake! One day, I opened the shed door and the babes were all fluttering around. I left the door open for a few days so they could take their time in finding a new roost.
My wife used to dry everything on the clothes line. One day she hung a pair of my jeans on the line and went out a couple of hours later to see if they were dry. While she was checking them a bunch of sticks fell out of one pant leg. They were still damp, so she left them out on the clothes line. A couple of hours later she went out to get them and she shook them and more sticks fell out along with a female wren. She was pretty upset that her nest building had been disrupted!
I believe it, too, Cap'n. It is said that Bewick's will nest in a shirt pocket. Kildale, we have Bewick's here, and they usually nest in the old mesquite trees we have in the barn lot. I love the darting about, shaking the tail, pecking here and there that they do. We've never gotten a great photo of a Bewick's like your picture, though.
We have Carolina Wrens, they quite often build a nest in a hanging flower basket. When they do that I have to be careful how I water the plant. Jerry
