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For many years, Carolina wrens have nested upon shelves of my garage and have raised their young. When the nestlings are fledging, the parents get truly irritated if I have the nerve to close the garage door too low for them and give me a major squawk party, with just a little song. Yesterday, there was an exceptionally noisy bird, yelling "teeeecher, teeecher, teecher" very close to me. When I looked up, there was a Carolina wren hen, not a cardinal, at all! I made birdhouses for them, which they rejected, although bats did move into one of them. Martins used to occupy the condos and were so welcome until neighbourhood boys pellet gunned them. After that, the scouts look us over, each February, but, we're beyond the pale and the martin houses sit empty, and forlorn. We're on a major flyway and get all kinds of visitors .. one time I looked out to the front yard and there was a convention of American Vultures. Some comment, that was! Lake Victoria boasts big, black and white fish eagles; they're well named and divide their activities between stealing your bait, as you cast it, and your catch, as you reel it in. It's quite an experience to fend them off as they're most serious about these activities.This Spring, I was excited to see an early bluebird, as they're not too common here. We also have had a greater pileated woodpecker beating away at one of my white oaks. |
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