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Julie Zickefoose has an awesome suet recipe that her Carolina wrens love to eat if you want to give it a try. Cardinals, bluebirds, song sparrows, brown thrashers and tufted titmice. Here's a link to the recipe and photos of birds eating it: http://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/2006/01/suets-big-deal.html Sharon Stiteler www.birdchick.com Minneapolis, MN On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Bill Bruins wrote: > About 15 minutes ago my wife said to me, "Isn't that the Carolina > Wren on the feeder by the shed?" I grabbed the bins and sure enough > it was. She suggested getting he meal worms out and filling the bowls. > > First, I grabbed my PDA with bird songs and went outside and played > the Carolina Wren songs and calls. Soon, the bird landed six feet > from me on the chimes hanging by the deck door. Then it flew to the > burr oak and started singing. I turned off the player and listened > to it chatter away. > > Then .... a second wren showed up. They both began calling. I > played some more and they responded. > > THERE ARE TWO CAROLINA WRENS HANGING AROUND MY BACK YARD!!!! > > I put out worms in five places. I hope they get some before the > chickadees find them. > > Bill > > > > O. William Bruins > 1538 11th Avenue NE > Rochester, MN 55906-4213 > wbru...@earthlink.net > 507-281-1607 - home > 507-261-6837 - cell (not always turned on) > > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > mou-...@cbs.umn.edu > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net --Apple-Mail-8-698863880 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Julie = Zickefoose has an awesome suet recipe that her Carolina wrens love to = eat if you want to give it a try.=A0 Cardinals, bluebirds, song = sparrows, brown thrashers and tufted titmice.=A0 Here's a link to the = recipe and photos of birds eating it:</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/2006/01/suets-big-deal.html">h= ttp://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/2006/01/suets-big-deal.html</A></DIV><D= IV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Sharon = Stiteler</DIV><DIV>www.birdchick.com</DIV><DIV>Minneapolis, = MN</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov = 16, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Bill Bruins wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">About 15 minutes ago my wife said to me, "Isn't that = the Carolina Wren on the feeder by the shed?" I grabbed the bins and = sure enough it was. She suggested getting he meal worms out and filling = the bowls.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">First, I grabbed my PDA with bird songs and went = outside and played the Carolina Wren songs and calls. Soon, the bird = landed six feet from me on the chimes hanging by the deck door. Then it = flew to the burr oak and started singing. I turned off the player and = listened to it chatter away.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Then .... a second wren showed = up. They both began calling. I played some more and they = responded.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">THERE ARE TWO CAROLINA WRENS HANGING AROUND MY BACK = YARD!!!!</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">I put out worms in five places. I hope they get some = before the chickadees find them.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bill</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">O. William Bruins</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">1538 11th Avenue NE</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">Rochester, MN 55906-4213</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"mailto:wbru...@earthlink.net">wbru...@earthlink.net</A></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">507-281-1607 - home</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">507-261-6837 - cell (not always turned on)</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">mou-net mailing list</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"mailto:mou-...@cbs.umn.edu">mou-...@cbs.umn.edu</A></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net">http://cbs.umn.edu/ma= ilman/listinfo/mou-net</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-8-698863880--