HI there, I am new here so be gentle haha!
I have a bushy garden with lots of trees, feeders and a couple of water sources and have lots of birds visiting daily.
I've always had these gorgeous blue wrens in my garden and have always tried to find their nests because I know they have raised many babies in the past years - I have lots of bottle brushes, malalucas, gums and other bushy natives for them to hide in in my garden.
Until this year I have failed - a few weeks back I watched the male taking insects to the same spot and lo and behold, I found a nest -so cute they are!
Very careful investigation and there were 3 very pink babies in there. Male and 2 females all feeding them. To my surprise, they were fully feathered and had left the nest 6 days after I first saw them!
Wow they grow fast!
This was during one of the terrible heat waves so I wonder if this played a part in their growth or not, what do you think?
Hi there, you think Wrens are fast growers? I'm not sure,
If you trace back the photos I posted :
on the 17th: it's getting hot
on the 20th: they started feeding
today, 25th: hard at work,
it's been 8 days since they hatched. They now have feathers, but their eyes are still shut. You must have missed a lot of develpment. I just took some more photos of the parents, I won't bother the babies by getting too close. Both adults are so used to me and my camera , I have followed them for a very long time, and documented their good and tragic times.
M-L
What a gorgeous photo - how do I find the thread you are referring to? On other forums I visit, I can click on the user and get to their posts but I can't seem to do that here? When I found the wrens, it was a Friday afternoon - that's when I first saw they were just little pink blobs with no feathers and eyes shut. I looked in each afternoon up until the following Thursday when I looked and they were gone! I found them in the bushes surrounding the nest being fed. They had tiny tails and were very small, but flitting between 10-20cms. They now feed down on the grass.
You will have to go into "Best Photos", the first one could be one page back. But I posted countless Wren photos , you'll find them
Thanks for the compliment, wrens are my favourite birds.
M-L
You will have to go into "Best Photos", the first one could be one page back. But I posted countless Wren photos , you'll find them
Thanks for the compliment, wrens are my favourite birds.
M-L
Your wrens seems to have nested down low in grasses. Mine were about 2.5 mt up in a bushy tree so much harder to get a decent look into the nest. I had to stand on the very top of the ladder. Daddy wren wasn't too pleased and made very cranky calls at me, so I tried to only look once a day.
My parents had a nest of wrens once and the blue wren was doing the fake injury thing to try and draw us away from the nest.
Yes, I have lots of native grasses mixed with other plants, that's where they build their nests.
I have never seen them pretend to be injured. Wrens do what is called the "rodent run" , they ark up their backs and run like mice. If I can find a photo of it, I'll put it here for you. .
M-L
Found one
. First time I saw then do it, I thought it was a very fast running mouse.
M-L
Yes he did something similar to that too - but he was mainly dragging one of his wings like it was broken and dragging himself along the ground at the same time. I didn't know it was called a rodent run, but can see that definitely. I guess it encourages predators to eat the 'mouse' and leave the babies alone.
It is funny to watch and wish I had the video out at the time.