Living Large In Our Little House

As I wrote last fall, that is typ­i­cally “nest­ing” sea­son for us humans, but of course, spring is nest­ing sea­son for most of the wildlife that sur­rounds us, includ­ing birds.

Last spring, we cleaned out some boxes from the metal stor­age build­ing and left them on the front cov­ered porch.

A lit­tle wren decided to make a nest there and by the time I dis­cov­ered it, there were lit­tle eggs already in the nest and we didn’t want to dis­turb her.

Although I love hav­ing my morn­ing cof­fee on the front porch in the warm weather months, for about two months we used the back door as much as we could. We kept a dis­tanced eye on her and her eggs. By May, we heard the lit­tle peeps chirp­ing for food. By the first of June, her lit­tle babies were all gone and I reclaimed my front porch.

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