They Fledged!

The next day we were thrilled to watch the wren babies in the photo below fledge. Turns out there were four of them. (One must have been hiding in the photo I took.) There was lots of fluttering around the yard, as the fledglings awkwardly tried out their wings for the first time, aiming for a branch and missing, or managing to grab on, but swinging upside down, struggling to right itself. Mom and dad nervously flew about, chirping out to their babies and encouraging them to quickly learn how to fly, before some critter came along and gobbled them up. They carried worms and bugs to their babies, urging them on. Within an hour all babies and the parents had dispersed. Another brood on its way!