A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...

Head southwest to see a cactus wren.. Nests and Eggs. The male is serious about nest-building in spring, because it’s what helps him attract a mate. He starts constructing a few nests at once.

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 ...

If a house wren has any say in the matter, all the nests here are doomed. This year a house wren arrived on April 9. Less than a week later the chickadee nest was in tatters, tangled in the rose ...

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 ...

This week’s featured creature is a rather dull looking little brown bird that passes through the Ada area during spring and fall migration.

The third box, the one high in the rose arbor, held a mossy chickadee nest, carefully built on top of last year’s house wren nest. When I opened the box, the brooding female shot out the door.

The house wren takes a different approach than other cavity-nesting birds when it comes to claiming bird houses, with the male arriving a week or two before the female. Nick Lund photo/Maine Audubon ...

House wrens are spunky little birds about the size of a newly hatched chicken. They once inhabited almost every backyard and garden, consuming insects and chattering away to inform the world of ...

I have not heard the house wren singing since the day he arrived. He may have kept flying north. Even so, I won’t be checking the chickadee nest again.