This little bird found it's way onto my back porch, several times!

[elleng]

Has a sweet call.

[shenmue]

1. Squeeeeeeee

[elleng]

3. Kept bumping into glass windows and doors,

so I was/am afraid it's somehow injured. It seemed to disappear, I firmly closed the door, and I heard and saw it again! Hope it's OK.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I believe you have a Carolina wren.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Wren/id

It's amazing how much noise can come from a small bird.

[elleng]

4. Thanks for the id, Granny.

It's a sweet sound, and I had been hearing similar sounds outside and in front, so I guess they're hanging here!

[cpwm17]

5. I had a Carolina Wren get struck in my house twice before.

I got home and found it panicking. The moment they are free outside, they let out a very happy song.

[elleng]

6. Just found this one got into my KITCHEN!

Trying to find and shooo it now, but not very successful.

[cpwm17]

7. It's stressful.

I opened an outside door and it finally flew out with encouragement.

Several days ago a Yellow Rat Snake got in my house, and it's not the first time that's happened:

Yellow Rat Snake

I pulled the furniture away from the walls, opened an outside door, and encouraged its exit with a broom stick.

[elleng]

8. OY!

DID have a garden snake do that. Did NOT tell my daughter!

I opened outside door for bird, it flew out, but seems to like my place! Haven't seen or heard from it in a few minutes. I HOPE it's not behind the stove!

[cpwm17]

9. It might want to nest inside.

When I was deployed overseas with the Air Force one made a nest in my garage on top of the garage door opener. The operation of the door permanently scared the bird away.

There was, until recently, an opening above the side door to the garage. After repeatedly being burglarized (by a certain neighbor most likely) I got my house better secured and there should be no more wrens inside

[elleng]

10. Maybe, but it's June 2!

and as this house is 100+ years old (and I rent it,) I won't be doing any 'improvements.' This is a minor inconvenience, imo. I hope the bird is OK; still haven't heard anything.

[csziggy]

11. Wrens get into everything!

This spring while the weather was nice and before the bugs came out we left our doors open. One day my husband kept hearing little "tink, tink" noises so he came downstairs. We have a collection of "artifacts" we pick up around the farm on a shelf next to the back door and the wren had been picking them up, carrying them out onto the car port and dropping them - bits of pottery, glass, stones, etc.

So we started keeping the back door closed and leaving only the door to the screened porch open. The wrens came through the holes the squirrels have chewed in the screens and ended up in every room in the house. I have a net to skim junk off the surface of our fish pond and started keeping it in the house to shoo the wrens out. I can't catch them, but it has an extending handle so I can use it to push them towards an open door.

They are so adorable I don't mind having them around - but they are not housebroken.

[elleng]

12. FUNNY!

Tink tink tink!

This one apparently returned to the porch after I'd closed the screen door (mostly.) I guess they can collapse themselves and wriggle through.

[csziggy]

13. Yes, they are really very tiny

The other thing they do is build nests anywhere and everywhere. I didn't use my golf cart for less than 48 hours and there was an almost completed wren nest in the compartment. Fortunately, no eggs.

There is a nest with eggs - and probably babies by now - in one of the flower pots on the front porch. We hung the old hanging pots (with no live plants) up to try to encourage them to build nests there, out of reach of the cat and any snakes, but the wrens ignore them. Last year when there were plants in them, they did build nests and complained at me every time I had to water the plants. Maybe next year I will put some plastic flowers in them to see if the wrens will like that!