Spring finally seems to be springing here in Florida. We had a light frost last week, but it didn’t last long enough to do much damage to all the new greenery and early wildflowers. Along with flowers and vegetation, insects are starting to return too. I’m seeing some butterflies, wasps, bees, and lots of caterpillars. Spring is also the time that birds are migrating and our residents are getting ready to nest. Both of those tasks require plenty of energy. For insectivores like this little Carolina wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) that means lots of hunting. This bird seemed to have found a good spot. By perching on the low limbs of the brush, he could watch the leaf litter and quickly jump on any passing insects. In the short time that I watched he/she caught two small caterpillars and some sort of beetle. The bird left with the beetle either to feed it to a mate or to eat it in more privacy, who knows. Still, I won’t be surprised to see this or another wren in this site again since it was so successful.