When a female finds a home she likes ... Meet 6 types of wrens you should know. Though house wrens are notorious for building nests just about anywhere, it’s best to provide them with houses ...

House wrens measure 4 3/4 inches long with a wingspan ... He starts constructing a few nests at once. His female partner chooses the most promising one, finishes it and mates with the owner.

Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...

House wrens are little dynamos ... Males prepare a number of starter nests for a female's consideration, stuffing all available cavities with 3- and 4-inch twigs. She does an inspection tour ...

He has found a suitable nesting location and placed a twig or two inside, and he is optimistic that his lilting song will attract an accepting female. A house wren brings a twig into the nest box.

and finally has found an unattached female to father his second family of the season. And we’re only into June. The Jenny wren, more properly called the house wren, is one of the noisiest birds ...

When a fat, red-orange-headed woodpecker (called a red-bellied woodpecker, even though the belly is white) poked its beak into the wren house, the female waiting to enter dropped her twig and ...

“After setting-up his house, the male wren will go through several days of singing and wing waving around the branches of the Serviceberry tree to attract a female partner.” It’s lucky for ...

Seven or eight is average for house wrens, nine or 10 unusual. A second nesting, however, likely will be four to six eggs. The female lays one egg per day, usually first thing in the morning.