Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina Wrens nesting in hanging baskets

[Laura J. Heisey]

I had my first ever Carolina Wren nest in a hanging basket of tuberous begonias 
this summer.  One person I told said, "Of course you do!" They successfully 
raised and fledged five chicks. They're nesting all over my property in 
Newfield. I hear the buzzy "I'm bringing food" sound all day long every day. 
They now visit a basket of fuschias but I don't think they have a nest there. I 
thought they would but they just hang out there. They've put a serious dent in 
the bug population this year. I'll definitely encourage their return.


On August 24, 2014, at 5:00PM, Donna Scott wrote:

Re CAROLINA WRENS nesting in hanging baskets or the like: a few years ago C. 
Wrens nested in a plastic bag containing rubber belts for the lawn mower! the 
bag was hanging on a nail against the house under the floor of my roofed back 
deck (house is on a hill so there is a walk out basement on the side with the 
bag  - it was above my head), so plenty of shelter, yet easy access to the yard 
and spiders and insects in garden equipment nearby. I could see the nest thru 
the transparent bag.  3 Young.

I always have them nesting around here somewhere and this year they 
successfully fledged 3 young from one of those little woven, round-bottomed, 
pointed-top nest baskets that one hangs up somewhere - mine are under the roof 
of my front porch. Now one (or more?) of the wrens sleeps at night in another 
one of those baskets on the other side under the porch roof (I have 3 of those 
hung up under there).

I leave my big, browned "not-so-evergreen" Xmas wreath up on my front door long 
after winter because I like the way it smells and it is always nicely decorated 
with natural plants (by me). One year a Carolina Wren built a beautiful nest in 
the center of the wreath against the door. It lined the whole thing with soft 
green moss and laid its eggs.
As soon as  discovered the nest, I stopped using the front door and put ladders 
in front of the step to the porch to keep people from approaching the door. We 
all had to use the door from the garage. Sometimes I stood nearby to observe 
the babies in the nest and take a few photos and later they successfully 
fledged, I think.
Sometimes I put the old wreath on the side wall of my recessed front porch and 
now and then the wrens build a nest in the center of it over there.

This year I heard that monotonous vocalization (that Lindsay described) from 
the parent around the time the young were about to fledge. For a while one baby 
stood on top of the nest basket, as the parent chattered away, then baby went 
back into the nest. A couple days later they were all gone from the nest.

I live by Cayuga Lake (so a little warmer here in winter), and I have Carolina 
Wrens here all winter visiting my many bird feeders, and have had for at least 
a decade. I think there are as many wrens here as ever and that they survived 
this last "real winter" OK, perhaps due to bird feeders -- although I think I 
am one of the only residents on Lansing Station Road that keeps feeders full in 
winter (& all year round).

Donna Scott
Lansing
- Original Message -
From: Lindsay Goodloe
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:32 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens nesting in fuchsia hanging basket

   I was interested in Dave Nutter’s recent reports on a pair of Carolina wrens 
that successfully nested in a hanging planter on his back porch. It was just a 
few days after his first report (7/18) that we noticed Carolina wrens carrying 
nesting material to a hanging basket of fuchsia suspended from a beam under the 
ceiling of our otherwise unenclosed back porch. By the weekend of 7/26-7/27, we 
suspected that they were incubating their clutch. August 10 was the first day 
we observed food being brought to the nest, but the eggs may have hatched a day 
or so earlier. My wife saw an adult bringing food to the nest early in the 
morning on 8/21, but the nest was empty by the afternoon, and so, to our great 
disappointment, we totally missed what we assume was the successful fledging of 
the young. We never peered into the nest (a domed structure with the entrance 
located on the side facing the backyard) to count babies, either. The nest 
location was about 10 feet from our back door and five feet from a kitchen 
window from which we could observe the activity. Since we spend very little 
time sitting on the porch, the birds took little or no notice of us and flew 
fairly directly to the nest when delivering food. We once heard them making 
nervous-sounding vocalizations when a seemingly oblivious chipmunk loitered for 
awhile on the ground under their nest location until we drove it away. My wife 
also once saw the wrens drive away a downy woodpecker that landed briefly on a 
post near the nest. Though we rarely heard the male giving its full song during 
the nesting period, at least one of the birds (the male?) spent an 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina Wrens nesting in hanging baskets

[Donna Scott]

Carolina wrens nesting in fuchsia hanging basketRe CAROLINA WRENS nesting in 
hanging baskets or the like: a few years ago C. Wrens nested in a plastic bag 
containing rubber belts for the lawn mower! the bag was hanging on a nail 
against the house under the floor of my roofed back deck (house is on a hill so 
there is a walk out basement on the side with the bag  - it was above my head), 
so plenty of shelter, yet easy access to the yard and spiders and insects in 
garden equipment nearby. I could see the nest thru the transparent bag.  3 
Young.

I always have them nesting around here somewhere and this year they 
successfully fledged 3 young from one of those little woven, round-bottomed, 
pointed-top nest baskets that one hangs up somewhere - mine are under the roof 
of my front porch. Now one (or more?) of the wrens sleeps at night in another 
one of those baskets on the other side under the porch roof (I have 3 of those 
hung up under there).

I leave my big, browned "not-so-evergreen" Xmas wreath up on my front door long 
after winter because I like the way it smells and it is always nicely decorated 
with natural plants (by me). One year a Carolina Wren built a beautiful nest in 
the center of the wreath against the door. It lined the whole thing with soft 
green moss and laid its eggs.
As soon as  discovered the nest, I stopped using the front door and put ladders 
in front of the step to the porch to keep people from approaching the door. We 
all had to use the door from the garage. Sometimes I stood nearby to observe 
the babies in the nest and take a few photos and later they successfully 
fledged, I think.
Sometimes I put the old wreath on the side wall of my recessed front porch and 
now and then the wrens build a nest in the center of it over there.

This year I heard that monotonous vocalization (that Lindsay described) from 
the parent around the time the young were about to fledge. For a while one baby 
stood on top of the nest basket, as the parent chattered away, then baby went 
back into the nest. A couple days later they were all gone from the nest.

I live by Cayuga Lake (so a little warmer here in winter), and I have Carolina 
Wrens here all winter visiting my many bird feeders, and have had for at least 
a decade. I think there are as many wrens here as ever and that they survived 
this last "real winter" OK, perhaps due to bird feeders -- although I think I 
am one of the only residents on Lansing Station Road that keeps feeders full in 
winter (& all year round).

Donna Scott
Lansing
  - Original Message - 
  From: Lindsay Goodloe 
  To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
  Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:32 PM
  Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens nesting in fuchsia hanging basket


 I was interested in Dave Nutter’s recent reports on a pair of Carolina 
wrens that successfully nested in a hanging planter on his back porch. It was 
just a few days after his first report (7/18) that we noticed Carolina wrens 
carrying nesting material to a hanging basket of fuchsia suspended from a beam 
under the ceiling of our otherwise unenclosed back porch. By the weekend of 
7/26-7/27, we suspected that they were incubating their clutch. August 10 was 
the first day we observed food being brought to the nest, but the eggs may have 
hatched a day or so earlier. My wife saw an adult bringing food to the nest 
early in the morning on 8/21, but the nest was empty by the afternoon, and so, 
to our great disappointment, we totally missed what we assume was the 
successful fledging of the young. We never peered into the nest (a domed 
structure with the entrance located on the side facing the backyard) to count 
babies, either. The nest location was about 10 feet from our back door and five 
feet from a kitchen window from which we could observe the activity. Since we 
spend very little time sitting on the porch, the birds took little or no notice 
of us and flew fairly directly to the nest when delivering food. We once heard 
them making nervous-sounding vocalizations when a seemingly oblivious chipmunk 
loitered for awhile on the ground under their nest location until we drove it 
away. My wife also once saw the wrens drive away a downy woodpecker that landed 
briefly on a post near the nest. Though we rarely heard the male giving its 
full song during the nesting period, at least one of the birds (the male?) 
spent an amazing amount of time (especially in late morning and during the 
afternoon) repeating monotonously the brief slurred trill call that is one of 
the wren’s common vocalizations. It gave this call from many locations close to 
our house, but perhaps its favorite calling perch was the handle of our lawn 
mower, which was for some days parked on our porch about ten feet from the 
nest. We believe that the frequency of calling increased as the fledging date 
approached; if so, it suggests that the vocalizing was directed mostly at the 
nestlings. Perhaps some learning of the call goes on

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina Wrens

[Nancy]

Hi Laura,
yes very common for Carolina Wren. They are very gregarious and tolerant of 
people. I've had them do that almost every year in my hanging basket right next 
to my front door, and have babies fledge successfully. I was always very 
careful to not water so much that the bottom of the nest is wet.
The wrens will disperse after the nestling fledge, so no worries about what to 
do with it after. They only use it for rearing young and then abandon it.
I think it is very cool to watch, and a wonderful thing so if you can tolerate 
a little inconvenience for a few weeks it is well worth it, in my opinion.

Nancy Cusumano

Cayuga Dog Rescue has saved more than 450 dogs since 2005!
Learn more at cayugadogrescue.org


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> On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:56 AM, "Laura J. Heisey"  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> There are 2 Carolina Wrens attempting to build nests in hanging baskets on my 
> porch. Is that normal behavior? Should I discourage them? I’m not sure how 
> I’ll be able to water the plants without damaging the nests. What will happen 
> to them over the winter?
>  
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[Nari Mistry]

Early this morning we finally got two Carolina Wrens together at the suet 
feeder. All February only one would visit and we wondered what had happened, or 
whether they were just taking turns.
We have had a pair of Carolina Wrens visit our feeders for many years in 
winter; in spring & summer we hear the trilling and singing and see them 
skulking around our brush piles. We assumed they were a pair -- glad to know 
that is confirmed on the Lab of O page.

Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd.
> Subject: Re: Carolina wrens
> From: John Greenly
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 14:23:21 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first:  says 
> there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year.  Funny I haven't 
> noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring.  
> Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.  Anyway, my two 
> must be a pair.
>
> --John

> Subject: Carolina wrens
> From: John Greenly
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 12:58:20 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his 
> living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that 
> the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens 
> coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was that the males 
> defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  but these two are 
> not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other.  There are 
> other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the 
> feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second bird is a female?   Do they 
> stay around in the winter too?  I've never seen two together in the winter 
> before.
>
> --John Greenly
> Ludlowville

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[Judith Thurber]

I also enjoyed Carolina Wren, which has wintered here, singing in a.m. in 
Liverpool on Shoreview.  Also had Brown Creeper at suet.  

Onondaga Lake Inner Harbor late afternoon:   7 Iceland Gulls, 1 adult Glaucous 
with the many Herring, several Ring-billed, a few Great Black-backs.

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Liverpool

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> On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Joe DeVito  wrote:
> 
> I had one here in Syracuse this AM
> 
> Don't forget to look up,
> Joe DeVito
> 
>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Ellen Haith  wrote:
>> 
>> I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of 
>> songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little 
>> fellow's companion.
>> 
>> On a different note, I've had a Pileated Woodpecker at the suet on two 
>> different occasions this week - that's about 15 feet from the kitchen 
>> window, closest I've ever been to one. Magnificent!
>> 
>> ellie haith
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, John Greenly  wrote:
>>> Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first:  says 
>>> there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year.  Funny I haven't 
>>> noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the 
>>> spring.  Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.  
>>> Anyway, my two must be a pair.
>>> 
>>> --John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote:
>>> 
>>> > I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of 
>>> > his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder 
>>> > that the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two 
>>> > Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was 
>>> > that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  
>>> > but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of 
>>> > each other.  There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is 
>>> > this just a truce at the feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second 
>>> > bird is a female?   Do they stay around in the winter too?  I've never 
>>> > seen two together in the winter before.
>>> >
>>> > --John Greenly
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[Joe DeVito]

I had one here in Syracuse this AM

Don't forget to look up,
Joe DeVito

On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Ellen Haith  wrote:

> I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of 
> songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little 
> fellow's companion.
> 
> On a different note, I've had a Pileated Woodpecker at the suet on two 
> different occasions this week - that's about 15 feet from the kitchen window, 
> closest I've ever been to one. Magnificent!
> 
> ellie haith
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, John Greenly  wrote:
>> Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first:  says 
>> there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year.  Funny I haven't 
>> noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. 
>>  Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.  Anyway, my 
>> two must be a pair.
>> 
>> --John
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote:
>> 
>> > I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his 
>> > living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that 
>> > the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two Carolina 
>> > Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was that the 
>> > males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  but these 
>> > two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. 
>> >  There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a 
>> > truce at the feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second bird is a 
>> > female?   Do they stay around in the winter too?  I've never seen two 
>> > together in the winter before.
>> >
>> > --John Greenly
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[Ellen Haith]

I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of
songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little
fellow's companion.

On a different note, I've had a Pileated Woodpecker at the suet on two
different occasions this week - that's about 15 feet from the kitchen
window, closest I've ever been to one. Magnificent!

ellie haith


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> Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first:  says
> there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year.  Funny I haven't
> noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the
> spring.  Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.
>  Anyway, my two must be a pair.
>
> --John
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote:
>
> > I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of
> his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder
> that the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two Carolina
> Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was that the
> males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  but these
> two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other.
>  There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a
> truce at the feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second bird is a
> female?   Do they stay around in the winter too?  I've never seen two
> together in the winter before.
> >
> > --John Greenly
> > Ludlowville
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[John Greenly]

Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first:  says there 
they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year.  Funny I haven't noticed in 
the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring.  Alicia 
Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.  Anyway, my two must be a 
pair.  

--John


On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote:

> I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his 
> living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that 
> the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens 
> coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was that the males 
> defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  but these two are 
> not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other.  There are 
> other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the 
> feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second bird is a female?   Do they 
> stay around in the winter too?  I've never seen two together in the winter 
> before.
> 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

[Geo Kloppel]

Hi John and all,

Perhaps the answer may be that it's no longer winter for them. The earliest New 
York State egg date for Carolina Wren is something like April first.

-Geo 

On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly  wrote:

> I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his 
> living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that 
> the woodpeckers waste.  But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens 
> coming together on suet cleanup duty.  My impression was that the males 
> defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing-  but these two are 
> not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other.  There are 
> other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the 
> feeding spot?  Or is it possible that the second bird is a female?   Do they 
> stay around in the winter too?  I've never seen two together in the winter 
> before.
> 
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> Ludlowville
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