Head southwest to see a cactus wren.. Nests and Eggs. The male is serious about nest-building in spring, because it’s what helps him attract a mate. He starts constructing a few nests at once.

While the male cicada makes a noise as it whizzes from tree to tree, the male wren does the same thing by building nests for the female of the species. Wrens are those small chirpy birds about 4 ...

Male wrens build two or three nests in hopes of gaining a female’s approval. “Females are attracted based on the location of the nest or how he’s constructed it,” Beehler said.

He wasted no time investigating potential nest sites, and my new bird house was one of them. More: Tiny bird, big voice: Carolina wren sings a distinctive tune. Males typically precede females by ...

These birds also like to use small nesting boxes – with a base of about 4x5 inches and an opening of 1 1/4 inches – for their homes. If a wren can put its head through the hole, it's big ...

And house wrens destroy chickadee eggs — and bluebird eggs and tufted titmouse eggs — even when they have already claimed a nest cavity of their own. The wrens have their reasons.

In my biased opinion, Carolina wrens are about as cute as birds come. They sing a cheerful song year round. That racing stripe across their faces gives them a distinctly classy look.

Let’s take a look at what wrens are up to and how they differ from some of our other cavity-nesting birds. A key difference between house wrens and other bird house-nesting birds is the way we ...

The second box held an old house wren nest and also a house ant nest. The third box, the one high in the rose arbor, held a mossy chickadee nest, carefully built on top of last year’s house wren ...

Most birds build new nests in new locations for new broods. Facing limited nest cavity options, ... and they grab the best cavities before migrating cavity nesters like house wrens arrive.

I have not heard the house wren singing since the day he arrived. He may have kept flying north. Even so, I won’t be checking the chickadee nest again.