Hello Everyone,
Thank you for letting me join the Bird Forum. I have loved watching birds for a long time, but just in the last two years have been observing them more and reading about them more. My husband and I have many birds in our backyard and we have put up bird houses so the birds can nest. About three or four weeks ago we had a pair of Carolina Wrens pick a nest box on our front porch. The female incubated the eggs and they hatched. Both wrens were coming and going for days feeding the babies, but since yesterday we have not seen the male wren at all. He usually goes on our bird feeders and you can hear him singing away on and off all day, but something must have happened to him because he is just not around anywhere. I have been watching the nest. The female is coming and doing all day and I'm worried that she is going to exhaust from doing all the work? She seems kind of scittish too, constantly checking around and flying up and down by the nest with food in her mouth, but not giving the food sometimes. I was just wondering if anyone else has observed this? Is there something we can do to help her?
Sorry if my post is all over the place. I'm just concerned that she is going to get too weak without the male wren.
Thank you for reading
Rebekah
Thank you for letting me join the Bird Forum. I have loved watching birds for a long time, but just in the last two years have been observing them more and reading about them more. My husband and I have many birds in our backyard and we have put up bird houses so the birds can nest. About three or four weeks ago we had a pair of Carolina Wrens pick a nest box on our front porch. The female incubated the eggs and they hatched. Both wrens were coming and going for days feeding the babies, but since yesterday we have not seen the male wren at all. He usually goes on our bird feeders and you can hear him singing away on and off all day, but something must have happened to him because he is just not around anywhere. I have been watching the nest. The female is coming and doing all day and I'm worried that she is going to exhaust from doing all the work? She seems kind of scittish too, constantly checking around and flying up and down by the nest with food in her mouth, but not giving the food sometimes. I was just wondering if anyone else has observed this? Is there something we can do to help her?
Sorry if my post is all over the place. I'm just concerned that she is going to get too weak without the male wren.
Thank you for reading
Rebekah