Robot Claw

We got a ‘wren house’ and hung it from a tree in our backyard:

< Can you see it?

Now we didn’t know what a wren looked like, or even if they were in our area. We certainly hadn’t ever seen one! But KLS liked the little house so we got it.

At some point, perhaps a week later, we began to regularly hear birdsong. It took a few days for us to realize it came from a bird constantly sitting on the house, as so:

< Bird

Our “Guide to Backyard Birds” identifies this as a ‘house wren’. He (?) has filled the house with pine needles to capacity, and sits on it for twelve or more hours a day happily singing his beautiful song, trying to attract a lady (man?) to have baby wrens with. Our hope is for success, because it would be great for the house to actually be used.

Here’s a brief video of him in which you can hear his song. I wonder what he’s saying?

And – to continue the backyard animal show – here’s another video of this years new crop of baby deer, spotted in our backyard last week. (Mum and Dad, were you hear last year when we had the babies?)

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