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diet mainly consists of insects, including beetles, caterpillars, moths, crickets, bees, and ants, snails and spiders.
Their eggs are creamy white to pinkish white, heavily spotted with purplish brown to rusty brown flecks. Flecking can form a wreath around the large end of the egg. Eggs are laid in the morning, one egg per day. A complete clutch usually contains four to five eggs but may contain as many as eight.
The incubation period lasts 12 to 14 days. During this time, the male often brings food to the nest for the female. Carolina Wrens spend unusually long periods on the nest, taking few breaks.
The eggs hatch in steps, within 24 hours of each other. For the first four days after hatching, the female broods the young. Nestlings are fed immediately after hatching, and the male brings food to feed the family. As the young grow, the female broods only at night and helps the male collect food and feed the young during the day.
After 12 to 14 days, the parents coax the young out of the nest. The nestlings usually leave the nest in the morning, hopping and flying short distances. The fledglings stay together and are fed by both parents. Four weeks after fledging, the young are independent.
Finding one building a nest in a hanging basket of flowers, under the eaves of our home, is as good as finding some rare treasure. To see that tiny, brownish-red body, tail cocked
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