I confirmed this evening that Carolina wrens are working on their third brood in our Berwick yard this year. With this kind of productivity and fewer brutal winters to knock them back, they'll lose that "rare" status pretty quickly, I'd guess.
We've lived here 20 years, but the wrens were not here at first. Gradually, they went from now and then to regular to permanent. Through 2012, they were mostly around September to March. In May 2013, I spotted a family moving through. In 2015 they nested in or near our yard. Over the past 6 years, I have failed to note them during only 1 month and that might have been due to my laziness.
This year they had fledglings before the Maine bird atlas "safe date," got a second nest going in the first week of June, fledged those young July 4/5, and have 4 eggs in nest three. They've gotten bolder through the season. I don't know where the first nest was, but the second was in our garage and the third is in a planter on our porch. (They get pretty mad when it's time to water.)
Scott
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:19 AM Martha Healy <marthajhealy@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm near Jay in Harpswell - close to Interstate Lobster. I had a singin Carolina Wren in May and June. Tried to build a nest but the H Sparrows drove him off. Have not seen the Carolina Wren for a couple weeks though.Like others, did not realize this was a rare occurrence.Martha HealyHarpswell--On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 9:28 AM K Sutton <nottusk@gmail.com> wrote:I had a pair that stayed all winter here in Jefferson from November until May. I'm hoping they show back up this year--On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:28 PM Delia Guzman <dguzman1964@gmail.com> wrote:I've had one in my neighborhood in Brunswick for a couple of weeks. I was surprised to find it on the rare birds list, so I put in an eBird report for my last sighting on Monday.--On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:10 PM Kristen Lindquist <kelindquist@gmail.com> wrote:I heard one in my neighborhood in Camden this morning after not hearing one around since late spring.KristenOn Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:05 PM Jeff Wells <jeffwells@borealbirds.org> wrote:--Just had a Carolina Wren appear in our neighborhood in Gardiner after not having one around for some months.
Jeff
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