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Re: Carolina Wrens bunking together
- To: "Travis, Ginger" <Ginger@athena.dev.unc.edu>, "'Carolinabirds@duke.edu'" <Carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Carolina Wrens bunking together
- From: Randy Emmitt <birdcr@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:32:48 -0500
- Cc: "Frazier, Diane" <Dianef@athena.dev.unc.edu>
- In-reply-to: <B9A72DA758B8D111B82E00A024FC704D026C36F9@athena.dev.unc.edu>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Folks,
For two years now maybe three I have had at least 3 Carolina Wrens bunking
under my eaves tucked in under a big expired wasp nest about the size of a
large fist. Whenever I come in after dark during cold weather I can hear
them rustling around due to my presence.
Randy Emmitt
Durham, NC
www.rlephoto.com
At 08:59 AM 2/14/02 -0500, Travis, Ginger wrote:
> My coworker Diane Frazier has a Williamsburg bird bottle (glazed
>clay wide-mouthed bottle hung horizontally) on her front porch for nesting
>wrens. This winter she has repeatedly seen several wrens emerging from the
>bottle early in the morning. Yesterday she finally got a good enough look to
>count them as they came out: one . . . two . . .three. . .four . . . five!
> I have read about bluebirds crowding into a cavity to roost together
>during very cold weather -- but Carolina wrens? Have others seen this?
> Ginger Travis
> Chapel Hill, N.C.