OK, Jean, I think it's time you 'fess up and tell us just WHICH ornithilogical publication you do professional photography for... Your photos ALWAYS look like they came right out of a book, or should be in one! I'm humbled by your skill and aspire to attain anything close to it with my own bird pictures! As for the Carolina wren, I got a picture of one just outside my dining room window a couple years ago, perched on one of those cage feeders... picture's through a dirty window, but it's an otherwise pretty clear picture of a wren and I think I posted it here before at one point, so let me go see if it's in my Photobucket... Well, I THOUGHT it was, but maybe I deleted it. It's late, and I'm not gonna hunt it down right now, but maybe you'll figure out if that was a Carolina wren or not by looking at online sources, FTM. Happy Birding, all! Jeff

Hi there is a site called "Epiphyte tree" that has a lot of great info on mounting methods and group selections as well as tree choices . The forums are rather dead but there are many pix of garden layout with emphasis on epiphytes. Found the section on material choices very useful gary

It is so funny to watch the "baby" birds that are as big as their parents. They hop around behind their parents,flap their wings and shake their bodies and chirp loudly in an instinctual behavior that elicits a feeding response. I feel sure the parents are thinking the same thing that humans think when adult children return to the nest after fledging. "I'm tired! Go find your own way like I did when I was your age!" Tee hee!

Gardenweb says that garden gnomes wreaked havoc with their forums and they are working to reverse their mischief! I have no clue what that means! I googled this hummer forum, then clicked on birdwatching forum and it seems to be working. The bluebird forum is up and running too, at least for now! I think they are still working to get things back to normal.