To begin with, Marjory, I’m sorry to hear about your little bluebirds. The adults will likely re-nest, but it’s still no fun to find dead baby birds. I’m also sorry if I spelled your name wrong. After ...

Birds are singing from pre-dawn to post-dusk in a heady mixture of trills, chirps, whistles and buzzes. Our inner ears are primed for our favorite birds: "Oh, there's an oriole," or "Hey, that's the ...

While many birds curtail, so to speak, their nesting efforts during the summer, the house wren does not. They just keep going. Let's take a closer look at this clamorous, nonstop nester. This ...

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 ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and call ...

Despite its name, the house wren is unlikely to be found around your house – especially during its highly energized breeding season, when males are furiously building nests, challenging rivals and ...

Certainly, they can be called birds of destiny. They hatched on Earth Day and 18 days later the little house wren chicks entered the world on Mother’s Day. In between, these three tiny birds survived ...

Most birds tend to be up in the trees, but the House Wren prefers to lurk low in the protection of shrubby areas and brush piles. Their brownish plumage and body length of less than five inches help ...

There’s a welcome sound absent from my yard this spring and I’m not sure why. Bill Moyer of Coopersburg reports the same thing. “I have eight bird boxes out primarily for wrens,” he writes. “In past ...