I am running a B&B for at least two Bewicks' wrens and they are keeping me pretty
busy. Starting last month, the male has been hauling off beakfulls of suet and
hanging out singing around the box I put up for him. He was often followed around
the yard by another bird who would "beg" for food - at first I thought it was a
youngster, but how could it be so early? This bird would follow him around the yard ,
including into the box. So I decided it must be a female.

They now have a box full of little snappers - they literally snap their beaks when I
peek in the box- and he is building another nest! (Either that or it is another male).
They are only a few days from fledging.

The new site was totally unsuitable - in a fold of the plastic cover of a Bar-B-Q on the
opposite side of the house from the wren box. It was only about two feet off the
deck and I took it out because I am sure the neighbor's cats could reach it. So I
guess I need to put up another box - is it common for BEWR to have a second clutch
or is he just building a dummy nest? Or are there two males in one yard???

Clarice Clark
Puyallup, WA. 98371
mailto:jbroadus at seanet.com