A Carolina wren must have a nest nearby.  I have seen it repeatedly hop on the posts of our fence and sing out from my front door.  It has a beautiful voice I was not familiar with it (???).  As far as wrens go it is big.  Now I am looking out for it and trying to discover its nest which is probably in the adjacent gigantic bush.  Catbirds have nested there before.  Last year a Carolina wren had a nest in a flower pot hanging from the garage door.  Carolina wrens are birds I have fallen in love with.  It was one I was unfamiliar with until I started putting up bird feeders.

A Carolina wren had made its nest in a pansy pot hanging from the garage door.  The nest faced the inside of the garage.  I spied the birds repeatedly getting and bringing pieces of suet to their young.  I stood below the nest and still could not hear the young.  A while back I had shined a flashlight into the nest and spotted three eggs in it.

Today when I opened the garage door I flushed two young wrens out of the nest and they half flew, half ran into my very disordered, cluttered garage.  Their parents were squawking very excitedly nearby.  I left the door open so eventually the two birds would find their way out.

I did see one bird against the far wall, then flapping near the entrance of the garage door.  I assumed it got out.

Then I had another encounter with another local denizen later on.  I could not understand why all of a sudden six cats were congregating near the computer.  Suddenly I spied a small mouse trying to evade their grasp.  scaredmouseI quickly trapped it with two sneakers and released it outside near the woods.  It must have been terrified for I checked the sneaker an hour later and it still was in there.  I encouraged it to run into the woods.  These were my two encounters with the creatures around my house.