In keeping with one of our theme songs, Everybody Eats When They Come To My House, we have lots of bird feeders in our backyard. We brag that we feed half the birds of Tierrasanta.
My particular favorites are the tiny wrens. They appear in a cloud and descend upon the tray feeders to nom. Unlike the sparrows and doves, the wrens happily eat together without fighting. They smash themselves into the feeder, wing-to-wing and chow down merrily. Here's what it looks like.
The flock is growing all the time. These days, the wren cloud must number more than 60.
It's a beautiful thing.
2 comments:
Are you sure those are wrens? All the wrens at the Cornell Bird Lab site have long, thin beaks, and most of them are practically spherical little birds that tend to stand with their tails sticking up in the air.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/search/?q=wren
Your birds have short, sturdy beaks like I expect to see on grosbeaks or finches. Can't really find a good match, though. Probably because they are either female or immature.
"THOU DOTH QUESTION THE KING OF THE WREN FAIRE? GUARDS! SIEZE HIM!"
Two small chihuahua mixes rush at you and vigorously bark at your ankles before losing interest and wandering off.
"Hmm. That didn't work out the way I'd hoped. Oh well. Good guards are hard to find these days."
As for the wrens, I think these are the chappies: https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/34845
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