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years, our resident Carolina wrens have insisted on nesting in our tractor.
What they see in this tractor we haven’t quite figured out. But their use of it gives us the chance to watch all stages of nesting there. This starts with “dummy” nests, loose piles of leaves and grass built by the male. He places several dummies strategically upder the hood, on the battery, on any available flat surface. Male dummy nests are supposed to advertise nesting spots to the female, but the male doesn’t restrict himself to visual advertising. He also sings incessantly, and when the female arrives he takes her to each location.
She is very picky and usually chooses the site most inconvenient to us, perhaps on the radiator cap. There she builds a proper nest, forming a lopsided mound of woven grass, moss and sticks. This she does very quickly (in less than a day sometimes), then she lays a clutch of five or six tiny whitish eggs which she incubates for about two weeks. When chicks hatch, both parents feed them insects for about another two weeks until they fledge and leave the nest.
So the tractor is out of commission for a month, tops. We figure it’s a small price to pay for the fun they give us the rest of the year.
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