House Wren
“On a related note, our local male House Wren seems to have given me the slip.”
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A House Wren was seen and heard along Shore Road.
House Wrens are also here and there across Cape.
The intermingled songs of both the House Wren and Carolina Wren can be heard in many of our neighborhoods, including Cranbrook, Delano Park and Winnick Woods.
On a related note, our local male House Wren seems to have given me the slip.
Starting in early June the intermingled songs of both the House Wren and Carolina Wren can be heard in many of our neighborhoods, including Brentwood, Cranbrook, Delano Park and Winnick Woods.
Also, both Carolina and House Wrens seem quite common across Cape Elizabeth now.
Late April brought Brown Thrashers, Eastern Towhees, House Wrens, Gray Catbirds and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks to backyards and bushy margins of abandoned hayfields and forest edges.
Although much of the action in my backyard has slowed down, whenever there is anything going on the House Wren and Grey Catbird, ever consumed with curiosity, are always first on the scene.
As for late summer nesters, on August 1 I was elated to hear boisterous chatter coming from a House Wren box hidden within the shadowy tangles surrounding our garden.
Noticeable waves of northbound migrants will arrive towards the end of April including Gray Catbirds, House Wrens, Eastern Kingbirds along with Least and Great-Crested Flycatchers.
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House Wrens, Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were sparsely reported.
Slightly smaller than a House Wren and less hardy than its cousin the Carolina Wren, this absurd little creature habitually holds its stubby tail straight up while darting to and fro.
On the morning of May 11 while my son and I worked in the garden three Great-crested Flycatchers called loudly above us while a boisterous House Wren exhibited its ‘rush-and-jumble song’ within the surrounding tangles.
That afternoon a walk around Hinkley Park in South Portland with my family yielded a Northern House Wren, Black-and-white Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers, three Northern Parulas, a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a pair of male American Restarts.
The Marsh Wren, similar in stature to the House Wren, nestles between the larger Carolina Wren and the diminutive Winter Wren.
Later that day, I welcomed my first Northern House Wren of the season back to the garden and while walking the fringes of the bog below our house, my son and I watched a male Black throated Green Warbler bathing in a shallow, gently moving “warbler stream.”
The Marsh Wren, similar in stature to the House Wren, nestles between the larger Carolina Wren and the diminutive Winter Wren.