Wild Wild Woods: birds nesting in the wild woods

5/24/2012

birds nesting in the wild woods

The nestboxes and snag tubes are full of nests. A walk through the wild woods helped locate a few more nests. And, today we noticed a fledgling House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus in a tree, begging for the morsel his Dad was dangling as a flying lesson incentive.
Top to bottom: Gray Catbird eggs in nest, probable House Finch nest, Tree Swallows claiming a nestbox for their own, House Wren hiding among her twigs in a snag tube.

About this blog "Wild Wild Woods"

Through 2018, the posts on "wild wild woods" were photos taken in my bird garden and a set-aside strip of land that was the old fence row when the suburban lots in my neighborhood were farmed land. That wooded area sheltered a variety of plants and wildlife among the trees, understory, and a brushpile.

Now, my windows look out on a pond.

My new location is another former farm field that became a neighborhood. Fortunately, the wetland was preserved. It includes a pond surrounded by wildflowers, grasses, reeds, and a few trees.

I am pleased to observe and enjoy these places for birds, critters, and plants of central Minnesota.

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5/24/2012

birds nesting in the wild woods