Baby wrens

Hi everyone,

We have a wren on her nest in a flower pot only inches from our patio window. I can sit in the chair next to the glass and watch her as she flits here and there after bugs for her brood and then returns for a while to feed the youngin’s and sit on them for a time. She seems to be a single mom. There were five eggs in the beginning but I’ve only see two chicks so far and they are so quiet that I wonder if they’re sickly. We have two neighborhood cats that take their annual toll on the bird population. When the cats walk by the wren’s nest, which is well hidden among last year’s dead plants, one peep from one small bird and the game will be over. I hope for the best. Maybe they’re quiet by nature or maybe they’ve been lectured enough by Mama that the lesson stuck.

David