If you put up a birdhouse with a 1-1/8-inch entrance, you have a good chance of welcoming a house wren family. Chickadees and wrens nest in the same kind of birdhouse. If it says, "wren house," it ...

Though house wrens are notorious for building nests ... The same as any other birdhouse, wren nest boxes should be cleaned out in fall after the last brood of the season leaves the nest.

The house wren nest box is empty, but my heart is full. The annual wren nesting at Mt. Hoo has been a success. For seven years now a tiny camera has allowed my wife and I to watch this miracle ...

Right on cue, a male house wren appeared in the yard around April 20, loudly announcing himself via his rollicking, trilled song. He wasted no time investigating potential nest sites, and my new ...

The location, shape and construction of a nest is as good a way to identify a species as is feather colour or song is to ...

To persuade the chickadees to nest somewhere else, I never cleaned last year’s wren nests out of the boxes. I thought my plan was working. House wrens construct their nests from sticks ...

House wrens, although not colorful birds ... I’m just a few feet from the wren’s nest box, where every 15 minutes or so the parents bring another delivery for their hungry young.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — The drama started the first time a house wren showed up, nearly a ...

This year, however, the wren colony was late in arriving and a house sparrow checked out the gourd, saw that it liked it and started to create its own nest. Unlike the fickle-hearted wren ...