Clean the House!

   A little wren made her nest in the well house nest box this year.  She did a great job of raising her little ones.  Then she moved to a nest box not far away.  The second nest box is just outside of Rusty's pen.

Once that brood was out of the box and own their own, she went back to this second box and scolded us from the top.  I got the message that she wanted us to clean out the box, but I didn't act on it right away.  So............

   One morning, she and her guy were pushing sticks into the pocket of an old coat that Joe had left on the clothes line.

   Until it was full to the top.

   Knowing that the coat would eventually get soaked with rain, we decided to put up a new nest box nearby.  Joe and Joanne were just leaving for a program, so the job fell to me (Barb).

Here is the new nest box behind the canoe.  She didn't use it, but now she is back in the box by Rusty's pen.  I will take her scolding more seriously next time...........