Five weeks after their arrival, our backyard tenants have flown the coop. Literally.
As best as we can tell, the young wrens that hatched in our birdhouse less than three weeks ago declared their independence on the Fourth of July.
We last saw them the night before, a Friday. There were at least two of them inside and they poked their beaks outside the birdhouse door, peeping as they waited for one of their parents…
