![]() This Carolina Wren nest was in CT, on the top of a propane tank (under the cover). "The parents came through the partly opened basement window and gave little attention to the humans that had to occasionally go into the basement." Vaiden tells of a pair of these wrens that raised a brood of young "in the pitcher of a pitcher-pump," left in the basement of a house. Needless to say, they were not disturbed, and given full possession until the young were safely reared." Mr. Witmer Stone (1911) writes: "In a country place near Philadelphia, a pair of Carolina Wrens entered the sitting-room through a window that was left partly open, and built their nest in the back of an upholstered sofa, entering where a hole had been torn in the back. Photos by Bet Zimmerman, May 2007)įrom Bent: Dr. Guess Wayne won't be wearing these boots for a while. Nests have been found in mail boxes, bird boxes, old hornets' nests, and ivy vines growing over porches and the nest is sometimes built in an unused cupboard or on a mantel shelf inside a house." Others report nests in flower pots, a leaf blower, on top of propane tanks, the mounting bracket for a satellite dish, around a push lawnmower blade, inbetween folded seat cushions, and a cardboard box. ![]() Old discarded hats and caps or the pockets of old clothes, coats, or overalls, left hanging in sheds or on porches, may offer acceptable nesting sites. ![]() Almost any kind of receptacles left lying around, such as tin cans, coffee pots, pails, small baskets, pitchers, or empty boxes may be used. It is not common for them to use a bluebird nestbox, but may nest in a three sided platform box (sometimes sold as "robin box")įrom Bent's Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds: "Nests of the more domestically inclined wrens have been reported in a great variety of nooks and crannies in, about, or under buildings of various kinds, under bridges, or in holes in fence posts. Eggs are white/pale pink or rosy tint/light gray (larger than other wren eggs) usually with heavy brown/reddish-brown flecks often concentrated at larger end. They do not often chose to use nestboxes.Ī Carolina Wren nest is a bulky, somewhat messy mass of debris like leaves with some coarse hay/grass, twigs, moss, little roots, weed stalks strips of bark, plastic or even snakeskin generally domed with tunnel like entrance and lined with feathers, animal hair, Spanish moss, wool, and fine grasses. Carolina Wren's often choose odd locations for their nests.
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