diff --git a/tractor/ipc/_tcp.py b/tractor/ipc/_tcp.py
index b534b143..4de04c25 100644
--- a/tractor/ipc/_tcp.py
+++ b/tractor/ipc/_tcp.py
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ async def start_listener(
     Start a TCP socket listener on the given `TCPAddress`.
 
     '''
+    log.info(
+        f'Attempting to bind TCP socket\n'
+        f'>[\n'
+        f'|_{addr}\n'
+    )
     # ?TODO, maybe we should just change the lower-level call this is
     # using internall per-listener?
     listeners: list[SocketListener] = await open_tcp_listeners(
@@ -140,6 +145,12 @@ async def start_listener(
     assert len(listeners) == 1
     listener = listeners[0]
     host, port = listener.socket.getsockname()[:2]
+
+    log.info(
+        f'Listening on TCP socket\n'
+        f'[>\n'
+        f' |_{addr}\n'
+    )
     return listener