I am posting photos this week of the birds I am seeing in my backyard this winter. Yesterday I posted photos of the Red-bellied Woodpecker. Today it’s the Carolina Wren. Carolina wrens are small but very vocal animals. Males are especially outgoing and are the only ones to produce songs. They employ one of the [...]
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I have been photographing and posting all the birds that I have been seeing in my backyard this month. Today is the Carolina Wren. My Backyard Birds: American Goldfinch Carolina Chickadee Red-Wing Blackbirds Fox Sparrow Red-breasted Nuthatch Common Grackle Eurasian Collared-Dove Northern Cardinal Ruby-crowned Kinglet Harris’s Sparrow Pine Warbler Dark-eyed Junco
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I took these wren photos on the last day of winter with temps in the upper 70′s. The weather changed over the weekend when we got several inches of snow. The Carolina Wren has a series of calls, including a rapid series of descending notes in a similar timbre to its song, functioning as an [...]
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The Carolina Wren is noted for its loud song, popularly rendered as “teakettle-teakettle-teakettle”. This song is rather atypical among wrens, which tend to sing songs which are similar to other wrens’ songs. A given bird will typically sing several different songs. Only the male birds sing their loud song. The songs vary regionally, with birds [...]
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I photographed this Carolina Wren at one of my feeders during a snowy day. The Carolina Wren is sensitive to cold weather. Since they do not migrate and stay in one territory the northern populations of Carolina wrens decrease markedly after severe winters.
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