the beetle yard

with the advent of spring came TONS of birds. with the big tree cut down, they were out of a space they'd been using for nesting. i guess they decided to get creative!
in addition to starlings nesting in our bathroom air vent, we noticed a problem with the winnebago one day...

upon closer inspection, what at first seemed like a weird mess in the radiator turned out to be a bird nest.

and it was FULL of baby birds!

i believe there were seven total, little baby wrens. the mom was busy in the backyard catching them bugs to eat, so i checked in on them every now and then to see how quick they were growing.

eventually they fledged, i found one of them in the crawl space step-down and helped him out. with no flight, there was no way he was gonna make it up out of a two foot deep hole.

this was the last time i saw the babies, before i knew it they had all fledged and the nest was empty. there are a bunch of wrens on the bird feeders these days!