To begin with, Marjory, I’m sorry to hear about your little bluebirds. The adults will likely re-nest, but it’s still no fun to find dead baby birds. I’m also sorry if I spelled your name wrong. After ...

I have to apologize for taking so long to answer your e-mail (and your question). Usually I’m pretty good at responding to e-mails, but sometimes other more tantalizing “spam” e-mails distract me and ...

Birds are singing from pre-dawn to post-dusk in a heady mixture of trills, chirps, whistles and buzzes. Our inner ears are primed for our favorite birds: "Oh, there's an oriole," or "Hey, that's the ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and call ...

While many birds curtail, so to speak, their nesting efforts during the summer, the house wren does not. They just keep going. Let's take a closer look at this clamorous, nonstop nester. This ...

Birds don't waste much time getting down to the business of nesting each spring. I've observed baby rob-ins and bluebirds that are already out of the nest. At home, I have nest boxes occupied by ...

Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...

Now, since the house wren chose the sculpture in the garden bed that I am in the process of weeding, I’m in rather close proximity to the nest on a daily basis. The bird flies out and lands in the ...

Like any first-time parent, I was overprotective about the new babies. In this case it was our first experience as “parents” to nesting house wrens. I had been given a small birdhouse as a Christmas ...

Before we left for our annual Canadian vacation, back at the end of June, there was a House Wren that chirped incessantly in that exuberance laced call that they have. Because we were using the house ...