Tag Archives: Carolina Wren

Monday – 7.3.2017

1:47 AM – Tufted Titmouse on the mealworm feeder reaches out and pecks the camera, right in the eye. Slow motion instant replay after the action.

This Carolina Wren is repeated taking mealworms away, presumably back to the nest, for mate and young birds. He aways flies slightly to the right of the feeder, toward the corner of the fence. .There’s a lot of dense shrubbery on the other side.

On our last trip to Wild Birds Unlimited they were out of the pepper impregnated version of these bird seed cylinders, so we got the regular kind. The birds like them, but also, of course, the squirrels. We moved the cylinder cage to in front of the camera yesterday, and caught these images (among many others) of a squirrel going to town on the compressed bird food. He might as well enjoy himself now – we’re making a run back to Birds Unlimited in a few days, and we expect they’ll have the good, squirrel-proof stuff in stock.

Sunday – 7.2.2017

3:10 AM – The Sunday Nostalgia Post starts with footage of the Generation One young bluebirds on the open feeder, attacking one goldfinch after another as they try to land. The Gen-1 birds were a rowdy bunch. From April 18, 2017.

From March 22, 2017 here’s the Carolina Wren I was concerned about. It looked like a cat (or something) had bit his tail off. A little research revealed that when Wrens (and other birds) molt, they sometimes lose their tail feathers. Sure enough, a month or so later the bird had a tail. I’m pretty sure it was the same one, based on markings and behavior.

From February 27, 2017, we have this video of the aftermath of a good hard rain. The open feeder we were using then didn’t have drainage holes, resulting in some Goldfinches wading around in a  small lake of birdseed slurry,

Thursday – 6.29.2017

12:43 AM – [We’re having the deck cleaned and sealed, so all the bird feeding hardware has been removed temporarily. There are still plenty of other feeders in the yard, so no bird is going hungry, but the open feeder camera is out of action. ]

We wondered if these bluebirds, so clearly adults, are this springs’ juveniles, all grown up. Nope. The spotted speckled juvenile bluebirds are still around, not yet transformed into the beautiful blue/orange adults. In spite of some research we’re still not exactly sure how long it takes for them to mature completely.

While looking at the bluebirds we ran across this video of busy traffic at the mealworm feeder, and decided to have some high speed fun.

For a change, here’s a video without bluebirds in it. Enjoy the Cardinal and Carolina Wren.

Wednesday – 6.14.2017

12:37 AM – We’ve had so many squirrels hogging the feeder that I feel obliged to show a video of one. Here it is, with a special fast action sequence at the end.

The Carolina Wren is shown here in a series of brief visits to the mealworm feeder.  Lately, like many other birds, he carries food away with him.

Finally, a male Downy Woodpecker having a go at the suet feeder.

Friday – 6.2.2017

1:27 AM – We moved the mealworm feeder (and MealwormCam) to get videos with less glare. It seems to be working. Here’s one of a kind of rare event: a Carolina Chickadee feeding at the same time as a bluebird. Now that the bluebirds are older, they seem to be less aggressive.

More mealworm feeder patrons – a Carolina Wren and Tufted Titmouse:

We really like these Blue Jays. Never get tired of how colorful they are.

Tuesday – 5.23.2017

1:47 AM – This is a video of some random birds that showed up at the Foodcourt yesterday. In order, we have a Blue Jay, female House Finch and small (possibly juvenile) Carolina Wren.

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This is a creepy picture of Mrs. Cardinal soaking wet, eating seeds in the dark and rain. I thought she might be too soaked to fly, but no, she flits off with no trouble.

Wednesday – 5.3.2017

2:13 AM – We got a new feeder for the hummingbirds, on that should give us a better view of the little birds. And other creatures. Here’s a video of one of the first hummingbird visitors, followed by one of an unwelcome guest.

We should have expected this:

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Recently we’ve seen the young bluebirds sharing the mealworm feeder, two and even three at a time – a first for any kind of birds. Here’s a are a couple of Carolina Wrens following the new trend:

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The Blue Jays now hang around the feeder all day, even more than the Cardinals. Here’s a typical moment – this one seems to be posing for the camera:

Monday – 4.17.2017

3:08 AM – We made some changes to the camera set up – since we weren’t getting many hummingbird videos yet, we swapped that feeder with the cylindrical ‘suet’ feeder. There’s always something going on there, usually woodpeckers, but plenty of other kinds as well.

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The big Red-bellied Woodpecker is now a regular at the mealworm feeder. Usually we only capture his head and shoulders, but the placement of the camera today shows him hanging upside down to get to the worms.

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The Carolina Wren is such a frequent visitor that we don’t usually post videos of them. We usually see them at the mealworm feeder, though they show up often at the suet feeder, as well as the platform. In this case, we had some mealworms in the platform feeder that attracted him. Wrens, like so many others, really like mealworms.

Thursday – 4.6.2017

1:17 AM – A few days ago we had a video showing the Bluebird taking mealworms away from the feeder, presumably to it’s mate, or chicks. They’re not the only ones doing that. Here we see the same thing with the Carolina Wren (in this case, the Half-tailed Wren), and a Carolina Chickadee.

The Chickadee:

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We’ve never seen the Red-bellied Woodpecker at the mealworm feeder, but here he is. Compared to the usual mealworm snackbar patrons, he’s huge.

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This raccoon casually takes a shortcut across the deck. The coon-deterrent floodlight we put on the porch doesn’t faze him at all. Nor does the fact that D and the dog were just on the deck minutes before, and that we were right inside moving around. Oh well. At least he hasn’t built a den right under the deck (I think).