Our first surprise -- Last year my good friend had told me that the Carolina House Wren could be very adaptable and resourceful. She warned me they would build their nests any where. Keeping that in mind just before going on our nature walk the kids noticed our cable box lid was sticking out. After further investigations I just had to chuckle at my friend's words.... not only will the House Wren build its nest any where but look at the shape of the nest when we pulled the cable box lid up.
Last year they built their nest in our empty hanging basket and it took the perfect shape of asquare
cube. They are geometric geniuses ;-) Well just on creativity alone I had to put an honorary picture of this amazing little bird before our nature and science center basket on the sidebar!
After taking a peek inside we were pleasantly surprised to find babies, four to be exact.... You can tell the nest has been there a while by the ages of the babies with those brilliant yellow lined beaks. I was wondering why I hadn't seen them in our hanging basket again this year?
Our second surprise -- While we were walking at the park we caught sight of some birds in an old dead pine tree. At the time we had no idea what they were. What was so exciting was they were busy going back and forth bringing nesting materials to their hole in the tree. This particular park has a lot of man-made nesting boxes, and many of those also had nests, but the ones these birds were building were 100% all natural. The pictures are not that great since our digital camera could only zoom in so far, but they will enlarge if you click on them... After we got home Aravis went to our favorite book 'Common Birds of Atlanta' and looked them up. They turned out to be Brown-Headed Nuthatches.
What a perfect ending to a wonderful school day!
Last year they built their nest in our empty hanging basket and it took the perfect shape of a
After taking a peek inside we were pleasantly surprised to find babies, four to be exact.... You can tell the nest has been there a while by the ages of the babies with those brilliant yellow lined beaks. I was wondering why I hadn't seen them in our hanging basket again this year?
Our second surprise -- While we were walking at the park we caught sight of some birds in an old dead pine tree. At the time we had no idea what they were. What was so exciting was they were busy going back and forth bringing nesting materials to their hole in the tree. This particular park has a lot of man-made nesting boxes, and many of those also had nests, but the ones these birds were building were 100% all natural. The pictures are not that great since our digital camera could only zoom in so far, but they will enlarge if you click on them... After we got home Aravis went to our favorite book 'Common Birds of Atlanta' and looked them up. They turned out to be Brown-Headed Nuthatches.
What a perfect ending to a wonderful school day!
