yesterday afternoon i was looking out the dining room window into the garden when i spied these two going in and out of the old birdhouse that hangs near the vegetable garden. for the last two years, a persistent little wren has staked out the house and spent hours calling out for a perspective spouse to join him. guess he's out of luck this year and in more ways than one-no house, no spouse!
the male spent most of his time keeping guard while the female went about the business of setting up the house. at least this is what i am assuming, we could not get close to the garden to watch and i had to carefully circle around the house and watch from the back steps.
mr. met, as darry has named him since he is wearing the right colors, does a fine job of watching over his mrs.
this is a branch of one of the many hackberry trees in our yard, they seem to favor the hackberries. if you look carefully, you can see that mr. met is on the left and mrs. met is on the right.we have been seeing bluebirds in the neighborhood for quite some time now. this year we noticed that they were flying through our yard and stopping to hang out in some of the trees, specifically the hackberries close to the house and our persimmon tree in the back. it is wonderful to see them up close in the garden, hopefully they will hang out with us and eat lots of bugs for us!!!
for more info on bluebirds, check out this very informative website from cornell university. it even has a recording of their songs and chatter to help you identify them.
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