Comments on: Chickadee Nest

By: John English

John English — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:44:09 +0000

I had chickadee and tufted titmouse battling over a knothole in my sycamore. The territorial battle was lost to a sparrow!

By: Kathy Detweiler

Kathy Detweiler — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:24:52 +0000

Chickadees are one of my favorite birds! Never knew about their nesting, very cool!

By: Jim Valimont

Jim Valimont — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:17:50 +0000

I had a chickadee nest in an old apple tree in my yard this spring. They were starting to bring food to the nest, so I assume that the eggs had hatched. But the house wrens returned and within a few days, I saw chickadees looking in the cavity but not going in. The male started singing again (singing both the Carolina and the Black-capped songs). House wrens just do not tolerate any other cavity nesters nearby. This happened years ago to a pair of titmice that nested in my yard.

By: Joni

Joni — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:05:57 +0000

Love the chickadees–such sweet little birds–actually had one eat from my hand. A few years back, I had a family in my birdhouse. Was so excited; but, the following year, some wrens were so aggressive that the chickadees were having a difficult time trying to make a nest–they put up a good fight, tho. This went on for a week, or so. The birdhouse was right outside of my kitchen window. I hung another house on the opposite side of the garage, but that didn’t change anything. Finally, decided to just take down the houses (of course, there weren’t any eggs). I didn’t know the wrens were such aggressive little birds.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:40:20 +0000

How interesting! Thanks Kate. Oh..of course cute and adorable!