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bird gets all the food.
My next observation on the wisdom of wrens is anthropomorphic, consequently unscientific, projecting human wisdom into the two little birds (who are the color of a new copper penny). Do those wrens know that Bob Lyon loves all life possessing feathers (except starlings and house sparrows) as well as green, growing things (omitting Japanese honeysuckle and garlic mustard)? Is that why the female built her nest in his bathroom?
The wren nest in Bob Lyon’s bathroom is a result of an interesting chain of events.
Last summer, a red-eyed vireo built her hanging basket of a nest in a dogwood tree just outside the window. Bob Lyon removed the screen, opened the window and proceeded to photograph the vireo nest from inside without disturbing the bird.
I benefited from the use of that bathroom as a bird blind when I spent a happy time with my camera aimed at the vireo nest which, when I visited in July, contained only one fledgling unwilling to leave home. The little bird called and called. Eventually the adult — greenish in color, with a stripe over her (or his) rubyred eye — flew in with a wriggling caterpillar and poked it into the ex-nestling’s mouth.
I was so pleased that the young bird finally got a meal that I forgot to record the event on film!
The screen was not put back over the window and one warm day in March, Bob Lyon opened the window a bit.
The Carolina wren took advantage of the absent screen and open window, flew in and built her bulky nest of
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