Re: More on Birds and Bugs

I enjoyed Keith's story very much, and would like to have some for myself,
so could he please tell us some more about these "birdhouse gourds"?

Isabelle Hayes


>One of the happiest moments of my life involved a Wren.  
>
>I had a long, terrible day.  I pulled into my driveway, thinking of nothing
>but taking some antihistamines and going to bed early.  As I came into the
>house, through the garage-end of the house, I heard loud chattering as if
>the stereo was turned up too loud on the Audubon channel. Quite frankly, I
>was pissed.  I was in no mood for "happy and mirthful".
>
> I staggered my way to the rear of the house, near the kitchen, and
>encountered my Significant Other on the phone, discussing stock moves (my
>least favorite subject).  This is where the chattering was the worst;  I
>wanted to grab whatever the hell it was making the mirth, and, quite
>frankly, kill it.  Then I noticed the source of the racket.  It was a tiny
>Brown Wren, perched on the Shepard's rod that holds up a Hummingbird
>feeder,  which is two feet away from the kitchen sink, warbling, strutting,
>scraping, hollering, yowling and yodeling it's little life away.   But, I
>can assure you,
>all-that-were-so-bored-with-their-own-lives-that-they-would-read-this-rubbis
>h-so-far......that I was trasfixed by this tiny mickjagger of a scamp. 
>Never have I been forced to feel so small..... in the presence of something
>so minute.
>
>Oh, yeah, the point is that since I've attacted Wrens to my propery, I've
>noticed that the little devils are marvelous at eating insects.  BUT, they
>don't eat seeds out of the feeders.
>
>Sermon over.
>
>Keith, WNY, zone 5
>
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