Fly, be free

Our baby wrens flew the coop and we missed it!!! How is that possible?! (See Bouncing Baby Birds). I felt so bad for stressing the parents out by stalking them that I decided to lie low for awhile... I guess it was too long. I even checked for what I thought would be the inevitable dead runt that got booted out of the nest, but nothing. The nest is quite high off the ground and doesn't look disturbed by a predator. I did some research and I've learned they can be out of the nest in as little as two weeks. It appears the parents decided to speed-raise their young and get them out of the nest before I came back.