Those Aggravating Wrens...

[River Rat]

I was just about outdone with those Carolina wrens. After replying to Molly's post http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,234381.0.html and just reading Teddy's post on the "grilled robins" I've been fighting the wrens for several days, they always want to start a nest in my flower pots, they scoop out dirt/wood chips all over. Yesterday, they decided to try out my door wreath, I took it down. I placed whatever I had available at the time and stuck in the pots to discourage them from nesting. In the mean time, I started a slapped together house (thanks to Molly)...I used a coffee can, cut a hole in the lid and hot glued small pieces of drift wood onto it and placed on my flower shelf. Before going inside, I had placed my work gloves in another pot. When I went back out what you see in the 1st pic is what greeted me. I moved the house and added hanging wire and hung it on the side of the flower. Believe me, they started moving in, I just checked it and it's half full already.

Last year it was inside the area of my ATV that I could not reach. Nest with eggs, then later babies went out riding with me. The parents tended to them once I reached home again. ATV putting along with chirping birds.

Hey, I think that house is really neat looking, I'm gonna make more.

RR

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What a mess!​

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Home, sweet home​

 

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[Charmin]

Re: Just Wanted to Shoot Em...

That birdhouse is cool , River Rat! I think wrens will build anywhere!
We had a problem with Eastern King birds one year--those things make the loudest racket at daylight!
Kind regards~~sandcreek4

 

[River Rat]

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Moving in​

 

[Mental Granny]

Great pics again Judie I love the birdhouse (s) ! Did you have any pics of the babies in the ATV?

 

[fossis]

They can be bothersome, built in my sons truck one year, (under the hood), had to be evicted, nice house.

Fossis................

 

[crazyjarhead]

Too bad they are making a mess of things

 

[TeddyB1967]

Nice pics, I love the bird house.

I gotta try to make a few of those. Maybe will help keep the robins away from the house.

 

[warsawdaddy]

I can put up with the wrens building everywhere,what is killing me is the whipperwills! One is right outside my bedroom window and one outside the back door.At the crack of first light,they start in and they sound like they are in the house,they are so loud.Dixie goes nuts!