I just came across this video, and I love it! We have Carolina wrens nest on our patio every year. The presence of people and dogs does not bother them at all. Those little brown birds bring a lot of joy to our house.😊
Love those little birds. Got a pair back for a second year building under the back of one of my chicken coops. They found their way into my black soldier fly bin where I raise larva and raided it regularly feeding out their babies. Then showed the babies to the stash after they fledged out. They mopped up on larva all summer till cold weather shut it down. Moving the bug farm indoors in a shed this year but I set up the old bin and got it started for the wrens a couple of weeks ago. Got a good population of them around here. Hope they all find their way to the bugs.
We're blessed to have a family of 5 being raised in a tin planter that is nailed to our front porch post. The Daddy sits on our flagpole proudly announcing he is helping Mom in feeding their kids.
A Carolina Wren pair hav built a nest in a plant pot hanging from our fence. The father wren calls to all and sundry that this is his territory. Such beautiful birds. Their sassiness reminds me of English Robbins. A great presentation of the life of family Carolina Wrens.
We had a pair of Wrens nest in my old gas grill a couple of years ago, and I stuck a bore scope camera in to see the chicks, and I began to put out suet, and meal worms for them. We noticed later that summer, that the wrens were going around our house, and EATING THE LARVA OUT OF PAPER WASP NESTS! They are my heroes! We do every thing we can to encourage the local birds to come by, have a snack, and to eat bugs. Between that, and the addition of 3 chickens, our once burgeoning spider, tick, and wasp populations are gone.
Always brings a smile to my face seeing nearly-fledged chicks packed into their nest, sometimes overflowing from it, as they exercise and try to find space for themselves. I can't imagine it to be comfortable, though they never seem to mind that much. Thanks for the video-- amazing footage for an amazing bird.
I love how the wren extends its neck so much when singing! Explains how the little birds have such loud voices! Thank for documenting this nest cycle🙂🙂🙂
I have a pare raising on my front porch in my wife's big fern. Always liked the little wren. As a hunter one the first birds or animals you hear or see in the morning as the sun comes up.
Thank you for the plans. I have just downloaded them. This was the first winter I never raked up my leaves. A few weeks ago I noticed a colony of wrens living on one side of my house. Literally dozens of them. I have since learned that the dead leaves and the insects living under them are what attracted them to my yard. Now I want to build them some houses!
Thank you for the peek at these sweet little birds. Although we don't have them where I live, I always get excited when I have a chance to see one. I really enjoy your site. Thank you for the share.
I’m so happy to see this: I have my ring camera trained on a nest right now. The pair is spending lots of time working on it and I’m hopeful she’ll choose it to lay her eggs so I can witness it like you have here.
I'm so grateful that Lesley recommended your channel! Your content is so helpful; it's a real pleasure to watch. Thanks for your hard work in making these videos!
The Carolina Wrens are favorites of mine. We feed many types of birds here in Kentucky, but I love to watch the wrens root through leaf litter after food.
I had a CW family last summer hanging around my yard and meal worm feeder. The entire family disappeared late summer. A male returned this winter alone as far as I can tell. This species is my favorite. So happy and curious.
Leaving the front porch light during the night till the morning on attracts alot of bugs and it attracted a Carolina wren for she or he wanted some breakfast lol so calming to hear the calls 😍😍
They are neat birds and are not very fearful of people. If they learn that you will look out for them and not mess with their nest, they’ll keep coming back. Known as “garage wrens” because of this. Mine don’t even care if I shut the door at night because they know I’ll open it in the morning.
One of these cuties took up residence in my dryer vent, and I didn't have the heart to throw her out, so my laundry has been line dried for several weeks now.
I love this! This is my favorite bird - one nested in our garage last year and I’ve been in love ever since. What an awesome video! So glad I found your content from your collab with Lesley!
Thank you for such a great film and narrative. It ended leaving me wanting more! So glad that the bird nerd referred me to your channel. Hope to see you grow because so many others need to enjoy!
Just had this guy come to eat the suet. My Carolina wrens come all the time. The funny thing about them is that they are the only birds that stand on the suet as opposed to on the side of the suet! It cracks me up. I also had one rather unkempt Carolina wren and I called him janky bird. I haven't seen him in awhile though. They are such cuties.
What a great timeline of the whole family. This the first time I’m looking into Carolina Wrens because a pair have built a nest in our door wreath 😅 4 eggs laid but 3 hatchlings have survived, they’re starting to grow down and the pins of some feathers.
Congratulations on attracting a Carolina Wren to the nest box. I had a House Wren pair that made a nest in my nest box and even had some eggs that I found last week. Unfortunately, the nest box was raided yesterday, and only the nest remained. It seems like the same male wren is still alive, but I haven’t seen any chicks. I hope that they already fledged, but I can’t say that for certain. I wish that a more successful nest season comes for them next year. Thanks for sharing!
They are fun to watch and I believe like the crow that information can be passed through generations because it seems like my garage wrens get tamer and less fearful of me with every generation. This season they built a nest on a tabletop in the middle of the garage. No attempt at all to stay out of my reach.
I have used dried mealworms in the past. But now I use fresh or live mealworms. I don't think parent birds will feed their babies dried mealworms, as baby birds only get water from the food the parents bring.
@@BirdsWalkingDown thank you , I do want to use fresh if the bluebirds come back , last year when I bought the dry ones I didn’t know as much about bluebirds. Also , you probably know but I watched a couple people use a dinner bell to let the birds know the mealworms were coming and they learned to look for them . Just thought that was cute
Great video! I have a pair that just finished building their nest in a box in my porch eaves. They finished a couple of days ago. I haven't seen them since. I'm assuming they need to mate before she starts laying eggs?
Wonderful video!! Question maybe you can answer: I have a nest in my potted mint on my deck! Three little eggs and a noisy dad that visits often. I would love to move them or give them a proper house (not in my herbs!). Can I move them safely? Suggestions?
Birds don't think about proper housing like we do. I've had house finches nesting in my front porch light fixture for years. I one replaced the light fixture with a birdhouse. And they didn't use it. I put the light fixture back and they starting using it again. Long story short, I would leave it. Moving it may cause them to abandon the eggs. They will fuss it you get close but they will not abandon because of that.
@@BirdsWalkingDown good to know; Carolina wrens nested on my porch last year inside empty cardboard boxes that got stacked up. One windy day it blew over and I did all I could to rescue their eggs, but I ended up finding 2 that shuffled to the bottom long after they left. This year they decided to start building inside the fabric pocket of my porch swing!! I am hoping we don’t have any inclement weather that might pose a threat - or any predators - because I just find it odd they would pick there to build a nest! Oddly enough, one of the parents has been bringing the 3 that were born last year to the porch - the parent is leaving them to sleep on one side of the porch while they sleep on the other side close to that swing with the nest. Not sure what the 3 young wrens need to be here for, but if you have any ideas about that behavior I would be interested in knowing about it. Thanks for awesome video!
Currently have a Carolina Wren incubating 5 eggs. Unfortunately I have been having trouble with my bluebird nest boxes eggs disappearing. Have 2 bluebird boxes, one bigger and one smaller, in the same yard pretty close, but not to close, to one another. Big one always gets used and the little one may get used every once and a while, it didn’t get used last year. Well, bluebirds tried twice to brood and both times the eggs would eventually disappear. Saw a brown little bird fly into the smaller box and found out what it was online. It was a Carolina Wren and they are very territorial. Gonna move the small box to another part of the yard farther away from the bluebird box just in case. After the babies fledge naturally. I hope a bluebird tries again because of not this would be the first year no bluebirds babies were born in either of my nest boxes.
Thank you for sharing. My guess is that Carolina Wrens aren't bothering the Bluebirds. From my experience it's more likely a House Wren which is also a brown bird.
@@BirdsWalkingDown Thanks for the information. I typed in small brown bird North Carolina and Carolina wren was the first thing that came up. I looked up House Wren and you may be right. Either way I need to move the nesting box farther away so hopefully this doesn’t happen again.
Learned about your channel from Lesley the Bird Nerd. Your videos are amazing. Last year I had a pair of Carolina Wrens build a nest on a shelf inside my barn and successfully raise a brood, even with my driving equipment in and out. Unfortunately, this year they abandoned their nest (with 5 eggs), which is still upsetting to me. I’d like to build a nest box like yours to mount outside the barn. Do you have a pattern for it? Thank you.
Wrens in my area very much favor moth caterpillars and will seek ONLY those to feed the chics. If you live in a city or overly populated locale where insecticide spraying is done this hurts several bird varieties.
@@BirdsWalkingDown It's the South Carolina state bird, ya kno. Put a tub of fishing worms near where they frequent and you will have some buddies for sure!
Just today two Carolina Wrens started a nest in a potted plant right outside our picture window! We knew nothing about them. This video was so timely, informative and enjoyable! We are really excited about this nest. I assume I should not water that plant any more?
Glad you enjoyed it! You can probably water the plant if it doesn't get the nest wet. The parents will fuss but will come back. Maybe avoid watering when the chicks get bigger. It may scare them into fledging early.
Free plans for this birdhouse at birds.walkingdown.com/carolina-wren-birdhouse
Thanks for sharing house plans.
A Carolina wren flew into my open window and was looking inside my kitchen to look for nesting opportunities. Crazy birds.
That is crazy!
Carolina Wrens are my favorite
They have amazing personalities for such little birds
I just came across this video, and I love it! We have Carolina wrens nest on our patio every year. The presence of people and dogs does not bother them at all. Those little brown birds bring a lot of joy to our house.😊
BTW, what kind of camera do you use for the nest videos?
I use the Blink camera for nest videos.
That is awesome!
Love those little birds. Got a pair back for a second year building under the back of one of my chicken coops. They found their way into my black soldier fly bin where I raise larva and raided it regularly feeding out their babies. Then showed the babies to the stash after they fledged out. They mopped up on larva all summer till cold weather shut it down.
Moving the bug farm indoors in a shed this year but I set up the old bin and got it started for the wrens a couple of weeks ago. Got a good population of them around here. Hope they all find their way to the bugs.
Wow, nice story!
We're blessed to have a family of 5 being raised in a tin planter that is nailed to our front porch post. The Daddy sits on our flagpole proudly announcing he is helping Mom in feeding their kids.
Awesome!
A most underrated bird. What a fun film.
Thank you for your time in sharing this
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing how you captured all that on your camera! Carolina wrens are just about my favorite bird. Thank you for your lovely channel! 😀
Thank you too!
I loved this. The way in which you narrate and tell the story reminds me a lot of Joe Hutto. Beautiful video. Keep them coming
Thank you Lesley!
A Carolina Wren pair hav built a nest in a plant pot hanging from our fence. The father wren calls to all and sundry that this is his territory. Such beautiful birds. Their sassiness reminds me of
English Robbins. A great presentation of the life of family Carolina Wrens.
Thank you!
We had a pair of Wrens nest in my old gas grill a couple of years ago, and I stuck a bore scope camera in to see the chicks, and I began to put out suet, and meal worms for them. We noticed later that summer, that the wrens were going around our house, and EATING THE LARVA OUT OF PAPER WASP NESTS! They are my heroes! We do every thing we can to encourage the local birds to come by, have a snack, and to eat bugs.
Between that, and the addition of 3 chickens, our once burgeoning spider, tick, and wasp populations are gone.
Gas grills are perfect nest locations ;) It's great they keep down the insects!
Always brings a smile to my face seeing nearly-fledged chicks packed into their nest, sometimes overflowing from it, as they exercise and try to find space for themselves. I can't imagine it to be comfortable, though they never seem to mind that much. Thanks for the video-- amazing footage for an amazing bird.
Thank you! It makes me smile watching them also!
Quite a gorgeous nest it built. A competent weave complete with added adornments.
Yes, I agree
I love how the wren extends its neck so much when singing! Explains how the little birds have such loud voices! Thank for documenting this nest cycle🙂🙂🙂
Thank you for watching!
I have a pare raising on my front porch in my wife's big fern. Always liked the little wren. As a hunter one the first birds or animals you hear or see in the morning as the sun comes up.
I like them also. They have big personalities.
And really, really cute,what a great service you did for the bird world, thank you!
You are so kind
Beautiful
Thank you
You did an amazing job capturing this wren family. Thank you so much!💖
You are so welcome! Thank you
One of my favs they are good cute little characters😊
They are cute!
Thank you for the plans. I have just downloaded them. This was the first winter I never raked up my leaves. A few weeks ago I noticed a colony of wrens living on one side of my house. Literally dozens of them. I have since learned that the dead leaves and the insects living under them are what attracted them to my yard. Now I want to build them some houses!
Nice! Good luck
What a lovely family! So cute! Great video- thanks for sharing it with us!🙂
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the peek at these sweet little birds. Although we don't have them where I live, I always get excited when I have a chance to see one. I really enjoy your site. Thank you for the share.
You are so welcome!
Great story thanks!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
Thank you for this lovely video 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a wonderful video. It really made my day. Thank you!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I’m so happy to see this: I have my ring camera trained on a nest right now. The pair is spending lots of time working on it and I’m hopeful she’ll choose it to lay her eggs so I can witness it like you have here.
That's awesome! They are fun to watch :)
Love this video! Have a wren who comes every year but have never seen where and if he nested nearby. This was so heartwarming to see! 💗
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was so cool! I couldn't help saying awww during the shot of the little baby birds' mouths inside the nest. So cute!
I agree, they are cute!
Great view of everything! Well done
Thank you!
I'm so grateful that Lesley recommended your channel! Your content is so helpful; it's a real pleasure to watch. Thanks for your hard work in making these videos!
Thank you so much for saying that!
The Carolina Wrens are favorites of mine. We feed many types of birds here in Kentucky, but I love to watch the wrens root through leaf litter after food.
Carolina Wrens are great!
Thanks for your video, i have been blessed with these birds all of my life
That's awesome! Thank you
thank you for sharing. Most Beautiful birds. and most beautiful is your generosity and the videos are just marvellous.
Thank you very much!
I had a CW family last summer hanging around my yard and meal worm feeder. The entire family disappeared late summer. A male returned this winter alone as far as I can tell. This species is my favorite. So happy and curious.
That is awesome! They are cute little birds!
When it’s time to leave the parents will shoo them out and they never return. There one day and completely gone the next.
Leaving the front porch light during the night till the morning on attracts alot of bugs and it attracted a Carolina wren for she or he wanted some breakfast lol so calming to hear the calls 😍😍
Thanks for sharing
Amazing footage! I love Carolina Wrens!!
Me too!
Thx I enjoyed watching this
Glad you enjoyed
So soooo cute!! Thank you!!
I'm glad you like it
Aww sweet video. Just started see these birds in my yard last year. Now I want to learn all about them.
Thank you!
They are neat birds and are not very fearful of people. If they learn that you will look out for them and not mess with their nest, they’ll keep coming back. Known as “garage wrens” because of this. Mine don’t even care if I shut the door at night because they know I’ll open it in the morning.
One of these cuties took up residence in my dryer vent, and I didn't have the heart to throw her out, so my laundry has been line dried for several weeks now.
That is sweet of you!
A little more inconvenience and a lot fewer bugs! Worth it.
Great video! I am amazed how fast chicks grow.
I know!! Thank you!
SO CUTE.
They are cute!
came here by way of lesliethebirdlady
Welcome to the channel :)
Awww! This is so awesome! I have a house wren in one of my nest boxes now. Thanks!
Thank you :)
Fantastic footage of these awesome birds !
Glad you enjoyed it
I love this! This is my favorite bird - one nested in our garage last year and I’ve been in love ever since. What an awesome video! So glad I found your content from your collab with Lesley!
Awesome! Thank you
Thank you for such a great film and narrative. It ended leaving me wanting more! So glad that the bird nerd referred me to your channel. Hope to see you grow because so many others need to enjoy!
Glad you liked it. Welcome to the channel
Just had this guy come to eat the suet. My Carolina wrens come all the time. The funny thing about them is that they are the only birds that stand on the suet as opposed to on the side of the suet! It cracks me up. I also had one rather unkempt Carolina wren and I called him janky bird. I haven't seen him in awhile though. They are such cuties.
They have funny personalities!
What a great timeline of the whole family. This the first time I’m looking into Carolina Wrens because a pair have built a nest in our door wreath 😅 4 eggs laid but 3 hatchlings have survived, they’re starting to grow down and the pins of some feathers.
That's awesome!
Great video and info.I have a pair off and on here in east central Arkansas and I like them alot.Small,busy birds with big lungs and beautiful song.
Awesome. Big lungs is right!
Thank you from Pennsylvania!
Great video.
Thank you!
Great study and narration. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super cute
Thank you! 😊
Great video, thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Delightful video! Ty!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video what cute birds thanks for making :)
You are so kind
Great footage!!!! Well done!!
Thank you very much!
Amazing video thanks so much
Thank you for watching!
Liked your other video on building the houses.
Thank you!
Congratulations on attracting a Carolina Wren to the nest box. I had a House Wren pair that made a nest in my nest box and even had some eggs that I found last week. Unfortunately, the nest box was raided yesterday, and only the nest remained. It seems like the same male wren is still alive, but I haven’t seen any chicks. I hope that they already fledged, but I can’t say that for certain. I wish that a more successful nest season comes for them next year. Thanks for sharing!
Sorry about your nest box. Glad you enjoyed the video.
I love the Wrens!
I've always heard that Robins don't nest in birdhouses.
Oh really, so there aren't any nest box designs for Robins?
@@BirdsWalkingDown
Robins usually nest on ledges or branches.
Thanks for the video. I am a new subscriber thanks to Leslie the bird nerd.
Glad you liked it! Welcome to the channel :)
I 🦅 really like this Video 😎
Thank you for watching!
I am always surprised how fast baby birds grow.
Me too!
Too charming,,,
Thank you for watching
They are fun to watch and I believe like the crow that information can be passed through generations because it seems like my garage wrens get tamer and less fearful of me with every generation. This season they built a nest on a tabletop in the middle of the garage. No attempt at all to stay out of my reach.
Wow, thanks for sharing
Thank you for this video , question, were they dry mealworms ? Trying to figure out what to do with mine
I have used dried mealworms in the past. But now I use fresh or live mealworms. I don't think parent birds will feed their babies dried mealworms, as baby birds only get water from the food the parents bring.
@@BirdsWalkingDown thank you , I do want to use fresh if the bluebirds come back , last year when I bought the dry ones I didn’t know as much about bluebirds. Also , you probably know but I watched a couple people use a dinner bell to let the birds know the mealworms were coming and they learned to look for them . Just thought that was cute
Insider views ha-ha 🤣👍
Thank you
Great video! I have a pair that just finished building their nest in a box in my porch eaves. They finished a couple of days ago. I haven't seen them since. I'm assuming they need to mate before she starts laying eggs?
Thank you! Yes that is right
I had wrens build a nest in a coffee can in my shop. Their chicks flew the nest last week.
Wow! That's a new one for me. That's awesome!
Wonderful video!! Question maybe you can answer: I have a nest in my potted mint on my deck! Three little eggs and a noisy dad that visits often. I would love to move them or give them a proper house (not in my herbs!). Can I move them safely? Suggestions?
Birds don't think about proper housing like we do. I've had house finches nesting in my front porch light fixture for years. I one replaced the light fixture with a birdhouse. And they didn't use it. I put the light fixture back and they starting using it again. Long story short, I would leave it. Moving it may cause them to abandon the eggs. They will fuss it you get close but they will not abandon because of that.
@@BirdsWalkingDown good to know; Carolina wrens nested on my porch last year inside empty cardboard boxes that got stacked up. One windy day it blew over and I did all I could to rescue their eggs, but I ended up finding 2 that shuffled to the bottom long after they left.
This year they decided to start building inside the fabric pocket of my porch swing!! I am hoping we don’t have any inclement weather that might pose a threat - or any predators - because I just find it odd they would pick there to build a nest! Oddly enough, one of the parents has been bringing the 3 that were born last year to the porch - the parent is leaving them to sleep on one side of the porch while they sleep on the other side close to that swing with the nest. Not sure what the 3 young wrens need to be here for, but if you have any ideas about that behavior I would be interested in knowing about it.
Thanks for awesome video!
I love the footage. Do you mind mentioning what camera you used? 😊
Thank you, mostly this is from Blink but some from GoPro
I have a yard full each year. There is always fledglings in the bushes
That's awesome!
Where did you find that mesh feeding platform at the end?
I have the feeder items that I use listed on my Amazon Store here www.amazon.com/shop/birdswalkingdown?listId=31WCYR1LYJWY5
Currently have a Carolina Wren incubating 5 eggs. Unfortunately I have been having trouble with my bluebird nest boxes eggs disappearing.
Have 2 bluebird boxes, one bigger and one smaller, in the same yard pretty close, but not to close, to one another.
Big one always gets used and the little one may get used every once and a while, it didn’t get used last year.
Well, bluebirds tried twice to brood and both times the eggs would eventually disappear. Saw a brown little bird fly into the smaller box and found out what it was online.
It was a Carolina Wren and they are very territorial.
Gonna move the small box to another part of the yard farther away from the bluebird box just in case. After the babies fledge naturally. I hope a bluebird tries again because of not this would be the first year no bluebirds babies were born in either of my nest boxes.
Thank you for sharing. My guess is that Carolina Wrens aren't bothering the Bluebirds. From my experience it's more likely a House Wren which is also a brown bird.
@@BirdsWalkingDown Thanks for the information. I typed in small brown bird North Carolina and Carolina wren was the first thing that came up.
I looked up House Wren and you may be right. Either way I need to move the nesting box farther away so hopefully this doesn’t happen again.
That was a house wren they can be very destructive
Learned about your channel from Lesley the Bird Nerd. Your videos are amazing. Last year I had a pair of Carolina Wrens build a nest on a shelf inside my barn and successfully raise a brood, even with my driving equipment in and out. Unfortunately, this year they abandoned their nest (with 5 eggs), which is still upsetting to me. I’d like to build a nest box like yours to mount outside the barn. Do you have a pattern for it? Thank you.
Welcome and thank you! I haven't yet made a design but I will try to do that. I'll let you know.
@@BirdsWalkingDown 👍
@@jsg1925 I put up the plans at birds.walkingdown.com/carolina-wren-birdhouse
THANK YOU!!
Show that is.
Thank you
Anyway you could is bird house configuration?
I'm sorry I don't understand your question. I have plans for this house at birds.walkingdown.com/carolina-wren-birdhouse
@@BirdsWalkingDown . In spite of a poorly worded sentence, you answered my question. Thanks.
Wrens in my area very much favor moth caterpillars and will seek ONLY those to feed the
chics. If you live in a city or overly populated locale where insecticide spraying is done this
hurts several bird varieties.
Thanks for the information
@@BirdsWalkingDown It's the South Carolina state bird, ya kno. Put a tub of fishing worms near where they frequent and you will have some buddies for sure!
Can Carolina Wrens kill House Sparrows? Those sparrows are the worst.
I don't know.
Just today two Carolina Wrens started a nest in a potted plant right outside our picture window! We knew nothing about them. This video was so timely, informative and enjoyable! We are really excited about this nest. I assume I should not water that plant any more?
Glad you enjoyed it! You can probably water the plant if it doesn't get the nest wet. The parents will fuss but will come back. Maybe avoid watering when the chicks get bigger. It may scare them into fledging early.
@@BirdsWalkingDown thank you!!!