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Birders

Curmudgeoness

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3. She will only be eating and feeding insects.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 08:11 PM

Jul 2012

If you want to help her, and I doubt she needs the help, get some small mealworms or bloodworms to put out for her. But she may just find her own even if you try to help.

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Journal for the nesting Carolina Wren Updated: 10:16 AM EST Aug 10 Babies left nest. [View all] Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 OP

When I started rehabbing baby birds, Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #1

She's only about two feet away. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #2

She will only be eating and feeding insects. Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #3

Have you spotted the Daddy wren? NCarolinawoman Jul 2012 #4

He may have been around, but today I haven't seen much of the parents. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #5

In regards to overfeeding, I think the parents have some innate way of knowing not to do this. NCarolinawoman Aug 2012 #6

Not yet. No other birds, but the wren is quick. Six, seven minutes and she claims Baitball Blogger Aug 2012 #7

You have become their defender and protector. NCarolinawoman Aug 2012 #8

I realize they will abandon the nest, but I heard one hit the glass panel this afternoon, Baitball Blogger Aug 2012 #9

I don't know the exact set-up to the nest in regards to the glass panel. NCarolinawoman Aug 2012 #10