The porch wrens built their nest so dark inside I never even saw their eggs, but now the chicks are hatched, four or five of them.
![[Flash: four or five chicks]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-17--porch-wren-chicks/20200517_110608.jpg)
Had to use my phone’s flash to see them.
![[One barely visible]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-17--porch-wren-chicks/20200517_110520.jpg)
Gretchen actually discovered them.
-jsq
Tag Archives: bird
Phoenix bird 2020-05-10
The firebird appears to be a Carolina wren.
This Thryothorus ludovicianus didn’t seem to mind that I was three feet from it. Continue reading![[Carolina wren]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-21--phoenix-bird/20200510_102404.jpg)
Phoenix Tree 2020-04-21
Update 2020-05-10: Phoenix bird 2020-05-10
Firebird:
![[Phoenix Eggs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-21--phoenix-bird/phoenixeggs.jpg)
We burned on March 2, 2020, and that tree Continue reading
Video: Wasps 2020-04-12
Something to avoid on the water.
![[Wasp nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111955.jpg)
As good a video as I could get, since I didn’t want to get any closer: https://youtu.be/ezt2ksMwz8I.
Stay tuned for great blue herons and a red-bellied woodpecker.
-jsq
Video: what is this floating bottom plant? 2020-04-12
Gretchen wants to know what is this plant that she found on the floating bottom?
She plucked it from here. Continue reading
Azaleas, Pond, Dogs, Herons, Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2020-04-12
The dogs like this.
![[Dogs in boats]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111237.jpg)
Some pretty things bloomed on the way to the pond. Continue reading
Brown Thrasher 2020-03-30
Seen through a window screen.
![[Hop]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-30--thrasher/20200330_090743.jpg)
It’s the state bird of Georgia, a Brown Thrasher. Continue reading
Wren nest inside screened porch
Some weeks back we saw a pair of Carolina wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus) flitting about inside our screened porch. We thought they had wandered in and were trying to get out. But soon it became obvious they knew not one but two ways in and out.
Then we noticed they had built a nest in the pot of a hanging plant. That seemed silly, and they seemed to have abandoned that quest.
But today I saw the mama wren going in that nest. And here’s what’s inside the nest:
Wren and Chicks 2017-05-11
The porch bucket wren chicks and their proud mama. Gretchen says it’s a Carolina wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus.
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