Hi Everyone,

Probably all of us have seen or heard stories about the propensity of some species of wrens to build their nests in some very improbable locations. Here is a story I saw on the TN-BIRD list that I thought might be of interest to some folks.

John Tubbs
Snoqualmie, WA
johntubbs at comcast.net
www.tubbsphoto.com


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From: Dthomp2669 at aol.com
To: tshane at charter.net, tn-bird at freelists.org
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Carolina Wren Building Nest in an Old Kitchen Cabinet Drawer.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:57:28 +0000


In a message dated 3/7/2008 2:46:16 P.M. Central Standard Time,
tshane at charter.net writes:
witness a Carolina Wren start building a nest in our old kitchen cabinet
drawer


When I was a little girl in Florida, we had one that built its nest in the
toolbox on the passenger side floorboard of Daddy's tractor. That bird rode
around, sitting on her eggs, while Daddy harrowed the fields. Later on,
during the second phase of harrowing the fields, the baby birds were in the
nest
and "Mama" would fly onto the moving tractor, feed her babies then go hunting
again. She repeated this over and over while Daddy harrowed his ten acre
watermelon field.

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN