Just finished cleaning the nest boxes I manage at a golf course near our home. There are 40 boxes on the trail. Use splits about 50/50 between Tree Swallows and Eastern Bluebirds. House Wrens and ...

If he finds an attractive birdhouse, he will immediately start to fill it with his favorite nesting material, sticks. House wrens love sticks. Nearly 500 sticks have been found in a single nest.

How to Choose the Best Wren Houses As you might already know, wrens aren’t too picky about nesting sites. As Kenn and Kimberly note, any cavity from mailboxes to jean pockets is fair game to them.

Northern house wrens prefer them 6 to 10 feet above the ground and hanging from a tree. Chickadees are most likely to nest in houses that are 4 to 8 feet above the floor of a thicket.

My house wrens are now working on their third nest. They start singing about 5:30 every morning. House wrens are extremely loud, territorial, and aggressive.

Two wren nesting studies found that house wrens prefer nest boxes with old nests in them. So much for cleaning the next box out each spring. Let's talk about the nest or, should I say, nests. When ...

We've had nesting house wrens every year we've been here, as far as I remember. Some of those must have been returnees, others attracted by good wren habitat (woodsy, brushy).

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Carolina wrens, unlike house wrens, live here year-round. So Carolinas have a wing up, so to speak, on house wrens: They get first choice on nesting quarters.

A nesting pair of house wrens and their five to eight hatchlings can make a wonderful contribution to pest insect reduction in your garden. House wrens may already be in the garden.

The morning on Mt. Hoo began with a joyful “woo hoo!” Our wild house wren chicks have all left the nest. The 2022 wren nesting cycle has been a flawless event that attracted much attention.