Simple BUT Lively Southern Porch

Since sharing about the front porch and my choosing to keep things simple by filling the urns with ferns The Front Entry ~ Keeping It Simple, our porch has become very eventful.

The Barred Owl is back and a pair of Carolina Wren's decided one of the ferns would be the perfect place to nest and raise their brood.

The Barred owl is perching in the top of the tree at the end of the porch (see him?)

and

the Carolina Wren's nest is the urn underneath the porch light...

About the owl...

It seems the Barred Owl really likes this spot.

He will stay for a few days, disappear, and then come back again.

We enjoy spending cool evenings rocking on the porch and the owl doesn't seem to mind us.

We don't mind him either, such a treat having an owl so up close and personal...

Here he is cleaning his talons...

He will snooze for a while,

then take a gander to see what we are up to...

Sometimes he will go back to sleep,

and sometimes he will keep one eye on us...

Now on to the Carolina Wren's...

Early mornings I would notice potting soil on the porch floor, just beside the urn.

At first I thought it may be squirrels

but soon began to see some leaves and pine needles being added just beneath the fern...

For days there was only one egg,

then another egg,

a few days later there was another,

and yesterday she laid three more!

Now there are six eggs...

This is the view of the nest through the glass in the entry doors...

It was through these doors I was able to snap these pictures...

Even though there are already six eggs,

it seems they are still fluffing their nest... 

I planted ferns to keep the front porch simple, but it has become lively with the owl and wrens!

How about your porch, anything interesting perching or nesting close by?

The Barred Owl has visited many times before that you can see here...

Do You See What I See and He's Back!

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