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[MyShadowLove]

@NickNack ...I am wondering how  everything is going with Mama Carolina Wren and her babies, as I'm assuming that the eggs have hatched by now?....You are in for a delightful experience!

Look forward to an update...Hope all is going well! 

[Tinkrbl44]

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@NickNack wrote:

@Big Joanie @Tinkrbl44   As Tinkkrbl44 said, I want to keep the plant alive to protect the babies.  I don't want bare leaves over the nest.  

I believe I said that I wouldn't mind at all letting the plant die except for that reason.

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@NickNack 

How's everybody doing?  

[NickNack]

@Tinkrbl44 @ValuSkr  I meant to give an update.  The babies hatched and there was lots of activity with both parents going in and out of the nest frequently feeding the babies.  I loved watching them.  

They fledged a couple of days ago.  I had counted the days from when they were born and had estimated that they would fledge last Sunday.  When I got up on Saturday there was no activity at all, and they had fledged before I woke up.  I was disappointed that I didn't see them leave the nest.  

Now I've got to water the fern really well and trim the dead  fronds (I think that's the right word?).  I watered a little bit on the side opposite the nest, but it needs to be babied now to try to perk it back up.  I don't know if it's too late for them to nest again this season, but I would love it.  I read that they have two broods a year or three in the south, where I am.

[beckyb1012]

I had a Wandering Jew plant hanging underneath the overhang of my home just outside our breakfast nook window.  There was a bird nest (cannot remember now what species) but I just gently watered well off to the side of it.  The plant did not need much water so that was nice.  We so enjoyed watching and listening as the birds hatched and grew.  

One Sunday morning while reading our morning newspapers a movement caught my eye and I looked out the window and there was a very long black snake climbing up that breakfast window closest to the plant.  I screamed the baby birds, the baby birds.   My then husband went flying out to the window and knocked the snake away.  The snake had not reached the plant yet, but the birds were already gone.  We had missed the "mamas" big send off but apparently the smell of the birds still remained.  At least that was what I preferred to believe when my husband explained it.  Price of living out in the country the wonder of nature is so close to home.