I love wrens, but…

…nesting in our window air conditioner?

Apparently this isn’t all that unusual for Carolina wrens, but I feel I should avoid using the A/C while she’s feeding young, and it’ll need cleaning out. The unit is in a bedroom window, and I’m only now hearing them regularly — little fluttering sounds and very small, reedy voices whenever the parent arrives to feed.

A wren nabbed a moth literally at my feet as I sat on the patio yesterday, and I registered for the first time that it was making many trips in the direction of that window. In fact, the female is back and forth every few minutes to feed, so it won’t be long before the little fuzzballs fledge. The male sings nearby all day long, swelling with pride.

I grabbed a few pictures of a feeding this morning.