Carolina Wren: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, December 2025 — It might have been over 20 years ago now when I heard the first reports of Carolina Wren on the local Christmas Bird Count, from a home down by the ocean. It was another 7 or 8 years before they began to show up in our yard, and began nesting in the neighborhood, completely displacing the House Wrens we already had. And now they are with us all year, coming even in the snow. We see them once a week or so, but then we have to be looking at the right time and I suspect they are around every day, checking for spilled seed (and especially suet) on the deck when we are not looking. Sony a6700. Sigma 15-300 at 450mm equivalent field of view. Program with bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.