Chickadee Day

Today in my yard we saw little Chickadees come to the Chickadee nest box. They started to make a nest in it. If you have a dog, you should brush their hair and put things like that out for them to make a nest. They will also use dried moss. It works because we tried it. The female Chickadee is the same as the male. A great place to buy a Chickadee nest box is Wild Birds Unlimited. I like the one by Rivergate. Sometimes they have Greyhounds in the store. They have lots of different kinds of nest boxes. The nest boxes they have are really, really nice.

This is my nest box and my Chickadees

Carolina Wrens will also use a Chickadee nest box. We have a Carolina Wren with no tail. We think it might be making a nest in our grill. The male can make more than one nest and let the female pick the best one. I hope she picks the one in our grill.

This is my wren with no tail

This is the pair

Soon I will be talking about Hummingbirds. 

Today We Put Our Bird Boxes Up

When you hang a bird nest box, you should always make it 5 feet or higher.  Rub a bar of soap on the top of the roof inside. That will keep wasps from attaching their nest in your box. When you see birds, don’t you think the pretty bird is the female? Well, you are wrong. Males are the most pretty because they try to get the female’s attention so the female will like the male. 

I also got a bird cam. You might see baby birds on it soon. I will tell you about that later.