FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] BKY Bluebird vs House Wren

[Sid Easley <Sid.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

      It has happened again.  For several years it has taken  me 6 
bluebird  houses to fledge one brood of Bluebirds.  The rest are filled 
with sticks, House wrens, sticks, House Wren eggs, and more sticks.  I 
don't think the 101st Division could  keep these pesky  little birds away.

       One box had a House Wren nest with 5 unhatched House Wren eggs 
topped off with a dead young male Bluebird!!   I can only guess that the 
Bluebird stopped by and either was unable to exit  out of that mess of 
twigs or the House Wren  beaked him to death.  At least she was unable to 
brood her eggs seeing as how his dead carcass was spread over them and 
that's 5 less House Wrens in the neighborhood!!

Melissa Easley
Murray, Ky.


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