I just passed a Trinity wreath-making group, all ladies. I’m sure all our gentlemen crafties were in their quarters applying razor strops to sharpen whittling knives. Nevertheless, the women were at their creative best decorating soon-to-be door hangers.
This led me to Carolina wrens, obviously very popular residents “of these here parts.”
Most of our residents from the Eastern United States and particularly from the warmer southeast are familiar with this feathered friend. But did you know Carolina wrens mate throughout the year? And what does that have to do with wreathing?
Back in the day, when my spouse and I lived in a different world, she hung a natural dried material wreath on our front door. A wren and her mate decided to build a nest at the base of the circle, a terrific wreath decoration. We carefully opened the front door when needed to carefully protect the production. After the successful birth and departure.
Susan took off the wreath and hung it in storage in our second bathroom. Left for a while, later in the year we heard familiar chirping. Yes, our mother wren was back and was nesting in our bathroom. She was scared and squawked and pooped at random. I’m sure her mate was similarly concerned trying to find her.
Carolina wrens nest together, are monogamous and mate for life. (There are some lessons we humans could learn from this.) We finally got her out and I’m sure she and the hubby had a wonderful reunion and found a better place.
You will find that wreath on our Trinity View door, and, if it doesn’t get first place in the wreath stakes, at least among the ornithologists, there will be two disappointed wrens.
