Date: April 19, 2020
Location: Jonesborough, Tennessee - Home
GPS Co-ordinates: 36.339781, -82.509418
Habitat:
Weather/Conditions:
First Sighting: July 2011 in Florida
Bird’s Actions: For some time now, a pair of Carolina Wrens have been living in/visiting my greenhouse. They are getting in through a little tunnel under the greenhouse wall.
Bird’s Appearance:
My Actions:
I was startled one day to see this Carolina Wren hopping around inside my greenhouse. I put up a small birdhouse for her but then one evening I was listening to opera rather loudly and didn’t see her after that. I thought I had scared her away and was worried about her. I had brought the plants that had been hanging on the front porch into the greenhouse a couple of months before and had noticed the remains of a bird’s nest in one of the geraniums. i wondered if perhaps she was looking for it and I felt rather bad that I had destroyed it. I knew where the plant had been hanging so I bought another birdhouse and hung it on the porch where the plant had been. I had a camera set up and eventually downloaded the video (below) and saw what I believe was the birds engaging in nest building. As I was so delinquent in downloading tthe video, I had missed this, which had taken place in mid March. I wanted to know if she was indeed using the box and since I am not tall enough to look in the entrance (good thing, too!), I put the phone up to the hole and started video. I thought I might see some movement in there. I wasn’t expecting this! (Above video)
Remarks:
We had Carolina Wrens nesting in the barn in Tampa. They had built their nest in a small tub on some shelving. The babies hatched and the parents were feeding them. Arthur moved the shelving unit about a foot away and the parents stopped feeding the chicks. He was worried about them and dug worms, cut them up and fed them to the chicks with tweezers. The parents were still around. We thought they might just have a very fine tuned internal GPS and moved the shelf back where it had been and the parents started feeding the chicks again!