Oh The Little Troglodytes Troglodytes

Hi Brenda,

I have one of these wicker roosting pouches that I bought in the summer but it never got used. Possibly because it was summer! I do have a little wren somewhere near my ivy in the front garden. Is this a good place to put it for the wren?

Hi, I had bought the nesting material last spring for the birds to take for their nest building and this was a packet I still had.I would leave your pouches/ wicker boxes where you think it spends the night, but obviously not too near the ground and hidden. ( possibly secured in your ivy Sparrow ) You do take the chance though, what else may nest in there. As I have said, I was lucky, I knew exactly where our wren stayed.

Kathy/ Sparrow, don't forget we were advised to collect the fluff from our tumble dryers. I have a bag which is half full now.

Thanks Brenda. I'll put the pouch safely in the ivy part way up the wall, and well hidden. If I get wasps in it, I'll know who to blame!!!

I started collecting the fluff from my drier and then read somewhere (can't remember where) that we shouldn't give them man made fibres for some reason.

My dogs sleep on fluffy vet bedding, which normally dries in half an hour on its own without needing to go in the drier. However, and please don't tell hubby (LOL), I have been putting it in the drier just to get the lovely fluff!!!!

Hi Buzzard.

Those are brilliant wren photos.  Well done for getting shots of such a fast and elusive little bird.

Paul.

Hi Blackbird, Brenda and Sparrow

I've been reading your replies with interest.  I don't have any nestboxes (because of the neighbours cat and also ours - it seemed too much of a risk to put temptation in their way) but I have lots of ivy growing on both sides of the garden.  You comments are making me rethink about putting some roosting pouches about in that.  Possibly a bit late now I know.

A belated thought but we used to have an old pampass grass in our front garden, it got so huge that when we laid the new drive, we had it pulled out.   I thought hard about doing it , it caused me alot of anxiety as hedgehogs also love pampass to house in.  We get lots of hedgehogs in our garden during the year.  Anyway after careful investigation all we found were a lots of empty crisp packets and other debris but no hedgehogs.  I do remember though that the grass i.e white fluffy fonds were very popular as nesting material wih the blue tits and other birds.   I would sit at my bedroom window watching them systematically strip the fonds off and fly off to their new nests.   

Nice photos, well done.

I think I saw three  or four wrens separately on one walk a few weeks ago.  I couldn't even get the binoculars up and pointing at them in time to be sure.

I did get a nice close view of one in the garden this week though.

Our fleeting visitor Wren taunts me by flying into the confiers where there's an open fronted nest box located, seconds year now and it would appear its not a prime location, LOL!

So what's the final answer on the tumble dryer fluff?  Can we or cant we use it?  I usually use Bobby's hair when  I've given him a hair cut, although in all honesty I can't be bothered for that just yet!

LOL Paul !!!! That's hilarious.

I'm still going to use my tumble drier fluff.