Week 24 – House Wren

 

House Wren. Photograph by Neil Paprocki.

House Wrens are chatty birds, and none-more-so than a pair I photographed and filmed from a natural cavity in the Boise Foothills this week. This pair decided to take up residence in the crack of a locust tree directly adjacent to a garden used for environmental education at the Foothills Learning Center.

This garden was used the previous week during a Junior Gardner Camp, and the wrens presence was an added treat for the kids. We watched all morning as the male and female brought caterpillars and grasshoppers back to their noisy nestlings in the tree crack.

All of the previous 52-week blog posts can be found at the Wild Lens blog or on Flickr.