They picked out the real estate and are decorating the nursery. Carolina wrens, having chosen a hollowed gourd just outside my window, tag team now with beaks full of dried leaves to insulate their ...

Cold weather like we’ve had in recent weeks rarely deters early cavity-nesting birds. I already have a Carolina wren nest with four eggs about to hatch and several complete bluebird clutches. Nesting ...

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. In fact, they’re well along with nest ...

A ceramic bird jar is attached to a wall beneath an overhanging roof to provide a trouble-free nest sites for Carolina wrens. (Photo: Special to the News Sentinel) It's a good idea to provide a few ...

Cold weather like we’ve had in recent weeks rarely deters early cavity-nesting birds. I already have a Carolina wren nest with four eggs about to hatch and several complete bluebird clutches. Nesting ...

The Carolina wren is a little bird with a big voice. A fixture in suburbia, the clear ringing "teakettle, teakettle, teakettle” song of this species attracts attention. The singer is adept at hiding, ...

Carolina wrens are as festive now, during the twilight of summer nesting, as they were at the dawn of spring breeding. The diminutive wren shows up in neighborhood yards, flitting around flowerpots, ...

In about six weeks, cavity-nesting birds such as chickadees and bluebirds will begin collecting nesting material to build their nests. So it’s time to build or buy some nest boxes so the birds have ...

Who knew that birds engage in time-sharing? John Russell, who lives east of Bloomington, sent me photographic evidence. “For countless years, we have had a pair of house wrens set up their household ...