Another One Nearly Ours

Continuing yesterday's discussion: if the Brown Headed Nuthatch is our backyard species most nearly unique to us in the Piedmont Southeast., who's runner-up? In my thinking, that would have to be this species. Thyothorus ludovicianus ("The wren from Louisiana") or as we know it: Carolina Wren. It ranges widely over the southeast, as far north as the southern Great Lakes, as far west as the middle Great Plains, and south into Mexico. A lot of territory but it misses Canada and the entire American west. And too bad for all those backyard birdwatchers, for this bird is a sheer delight to watch: energetic, nervous, and fussy all at the same time. Ours are front-line exterminators, working all over the outside of the house and deck in search of spiders and insects. And they seem to be at home on every feeder on the lot. They even work the nectar feeders now! And that's our second-nearly-ours.