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vast space was swiftly made. He entered the tool shed through an opening under the door. Next he flew to the back door and dropped into a large garbage can I keep for possibilities. Finally the little bird went inside a bluebird nest box I had nailed to an abandoned utility pole in the middle of our side yard. For a long time I neither heard the burbling song nor saw the wren. It seemed a decision was made: exacting standards had been met.
Within days another brown wren appeared and together they ftlied the nest box with sticks. When we left for South Carolina on May 1, it seemed the house wrens were settled and secure in the bluebird box. The nest was complete and a soft lining had been placed in the tiny cup of a nest.
We returned on May 11 and were pleased to discover that a pair of bluebirds had settled in the nest box near the garage. The female bluebird made many trips to the box with nesting material while her mate kept watch from a bare branch of the lilac bush.
With the house wrens busy in their nest box, I felt the wrens would not bother the bluebirds. Still, one never knows. House wrens feel compelled to discourage any bird using a cavity for a nest. They puncture eggs and throw them out. The explanation is that wrens are discouraging competitors for food. For the time, bluebirds and wrens seemed to me to be co-existing.
On May 20, Lee Trott wrote: Bluebird has three eggs. A fourth appeared the next day.
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