[TN-Bird] Baby house wrens + more!!!!

Greetings,
FINALLY, two young house wrens have fledged and emerged from their gourd home 
here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, Davidson County, a few 
blocks east of the Cleece's Ferry Boat Ramp on the Cumberland River.

They are just precious.  Daddy Wren has been serenading Momma on the nest for 
ages while she sat on the nest, then I noticed them bringing food to the nest 
several days ago at which time they both started fussing horrendously at me 
every time I went to the car.  While "She" was still setting, she'd just fly 
out of the nest and to the side of the yard when I went out, but with living 
babies in that gourd, she'd fly to the nearest hanging grape vine (about four 
feet away) where he would join her in the scolding soiree from two.

The babies emerged Thursday by doing a little floppity flying, hanging to a 
grape vine and pumping their tails in the style of the phoebe/kestrel/water 
ouzel/spotted sandpiper/LA water thrush/palm warbler in order to keep their 
balance whether on the grape vine or down on the ground stumbling around.  On 
of 
them flew/scrambled back into the gourd only to reemerge a moment later looking 
for "Momma" to feed it.  It's little wings were all aquiver in anticipation.

A baby robin is practically grown. Baby mockingbirds are getting peanut 
butter, jelly, orange, apple and yellow cake in their nests across the street & 
elsewhere.  Baby cardinals are being fed in the nests.  Young chickadees, 
titmice, house finches &  house sparrows are eating me out of house and home.  
Mourning doves and rock pigeons are still copulating on my deck, so guess they 
really haven't nested yet.  Right now, one great, big old rock pigeon is all 
puffed 
up and stalking a demure little lady pigeon who is still giving him the run 
around.

A pair of goldfinches are enjoying my thistle bag, as are the house finches 
and a few chickadees.  A male towhee has been coming up from the "bottoms" over 
by the Interstate giving his lovely "jo/ree" and feeding under the sunflower 
seed tube feeder and even on the deck!  Haven't seen a female.  Maybe she's on 
a nest over there.

A bossy mock just perched outside the door and is giving me "that look," so 
guess I'd better put out some more peanut butter.  After all, there are lots of 
babies to feed.  Hope this first batch can all get fledged and grown up to be 
self-sufficient before I head out for the glorious Northland to do a little 
birding in a couple of weeks.  I've been cutting down on feeding, so they will 
all have to forage more.  I have no one to "feed" for me while I'm gone.

Bossy couldn't wait!  I stepped out the door where it was waiting, lifted the 
spatula up to spread the peanut butter, and Boss started helping itself to 
the PB on the end of the spatula while two more fearful bosses waited for that 
one to finish and for me to get the PB onto the grape vine.

A deck full of birds is sure fun!

Cheers & prayers,

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN





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