Moved, no forwarding address..

I cannot believe ‘MY’ Wrens. They left without saying goodbye,  This gives new meaning to the ‘empty nest syndrome’.  Do they just use a nest for hatching the brood then fly off with not as much as a howdy do? Here is the empty nest:

Well at least I will get to use my scrub brushes I I need them.  Next year I will put more bird houses out. I am still watching the Chicadees in the bird house, the upper house did not get a resident. I will close up the windows with screens.  I hate for them to build on some tools I might need.

while living on Lake Dora in Tavares, Florida I made friends with some Moorhens. the couple above. They produced the ones on the pier and in the lake below.

I could call them and they would come running. Before they were born mama, decided she would build on our pontoon boat.  I would go out and tell her she could not do that, and would move the nest to a 5 gal bucket. She would then that evening move the whole nest back on the boat. Then I would move it back. I finally put her a little curtain for privacy, and she left it.
I enjoyed watching the progress, it was probably the most enjoyable thing about living on the lake. She would let me fish just a few feet from her.  Of course I fed her and Mr. Moorhen. 

She had four and chewed me out if I wanted to fish while she was mothering them.
And when she forced them off the pier into the water, I made them a carpeted ramp to get back on the pier (cannot find the picture).They never left us, but the Wrens, I am gonna miss them and their ability to work around me and feed those babies every 2-3 minutes. How did they know which was the last one they fed?
Thanks for coming this way. I know you have a lot better things to do.
Nite Shipslog
PS:
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving….
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Sherry with a 1937 Ford convertible, her year.  This was at a Eustis, Florida car show. On the shore of lake Eustis.