Will This Work?

I have a wonderfully vocal, but problematic, Carolina Wren nesting about the house. 

Her first nest (successful) was in the front door wreath, which curtailed front door exit and entry for several weeks.

Last week, I noticed her inside the open garage, carrying pine needles in her beak.  She couldn’t possibly be nesting in there with dogs and the paint cans and me knocking about with tools and trash bags, could she?

She could.

My wife found the rather enormous nest, built almost overnight, in the box of microfiber cloth used for furniture and general cleaning.

Today, with the garage door open, the wren was back — very vocal and quite disturbed that her nest was in the same location, but no longer in the deep protective box.

Something had to give, and I decided to be firm but helpful.

I cut down an Almond Milk jug, cut a few drainage holes into the bottom, spray-painted it a dull green, and wired it into the fork of a small tree at the entrance to the garage — the very tree this very loud wren uses, every day, to serenade.  I then shoved the over-large nest inside, doing as best I could to preserve the round bowl inside. 

It was a tight fit, but that’s how Carolina Wrens like it.

Will the wren see her repositioned nest in the new location?  

I have high hopes.