They found several of the beautiful purse-like nests of the reed wrens attached midway up the tall reed-stems.
What had become of the little reed-wrens was plainly to be seen by the bodies which strewed the ground beneath.
The boys watched the nest for some time to see the old birds feed it, and they were greatly delighted to see the way in which the reed-wrens managed it.
While they were talking, half-a-dozen tiny little gold-crested wrens alighted on the cordage of the mast.
Broadly speaking, they resemble each other as closely in habits as in structure; the greatest differences in habit in the most widely separated genera being no greater than may be found in two wrens or sparrows of the same genus.
Of all the wild birds, I believe I love the wrens the best.
Wrens are noted for their industry; unless in a very restricted situation the outside dimensions of the nest are enormous when compared with the interior, or cavity.
Wrens are famous for choosing queer places for nesting-sites.
In winter this kitchen is used as a sort of lumber room, and when clearing it of various odd and ends it was found that a pair of wrens had taken possession of an overshoe and laid the foundation of a home.
No sooner did the tiny bird appear, as complacent and hearty as all wrens are, than he seized the ink-bottle, and like Luther at Wittemburg, flung it wildly at the little fiend that thus dared to disturb his peace.
It is placed over the burning turf when the wrens dispose themselves to rest, and as there is no want of air in these dwellings, the turf burns well and brightly under the protecting pot.
The other wrens also took off gown and petticoat, and folding them up, made seats of them within the nest.
At the tip of the low cornice is a weatherbeaten bird house, a miniature Greek Parthenon, where the wrens built their nests.
Thrushes and jays, wrens and chickadees, finches and warblers, all would be singing one grand medley.
If wrens ever laugh, this pair must have done so that evening, as they recalled to each other my eager fumbling of that innocent old stump.
In the list of the lowly must be put the winterwrens also; one need never look skyward for them.
The winter wrens were less numerous than the thrushes, I think, but, like them, they sang at all hours of the day, and seemed to be well distributed throughout the woods.
On St. Stephen's Day the Glenmornan boys beat the bushes and killed as many wrens as they could lay their hands on.
The saint hid in a clump of bushes, but the wrens made such a chatter and clatter that the Jews, when passing, stopped to see what annoyed the birds, and found the saint hiding in the undergrowth.
She spent a whole day telling the little wrens the story and the Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said was there, and he heard the whole of it.
Good faith I tremble still with feare: but if there be Yet left in Heauen, as small a drop of pittie As a Wrens eye; fear'd Gods, a part of it.
I cannot tell, the world is growne so bad, That Wrens make prey, where Eagles dare not pearch.
Wrens cock their tails and chitter loud and play, And robins hollo "tut" and fly away.
Where the little Jenny wrens cock their tails among the hens, Singing morning's happy songs with Mary O!
Serins and kitty-wrens sang from the wooded slopes, and we observed long-tailed tits, with cirl-buntings and woodlarks.
Robins and wrens nesting, and nightingales abundant in lower river-valley.
As the Wrens went on a long voyage to Hongkong and back for the sake of my brother-in-law's health, my mother and I had the charge of their little boy.
I once caught half a dozen golden wrens at the beginning of winter, and they lived extremely well upon egg and meat, being exceedingly tame.
Many gold-crested wrens may be caught by means of a hut set for any small birds, when the way to attract them is known.
The wrenswere not the only tenants of that old tree-trunk; I have spent many hours beside it.
Wrens had no attraction for him, but he came upon the scent of something he was interested in, and instantly fell to pawing the ground and tearing up the obstructing roots with his teeth, as though he had gone suddenly mad.
These little Wrens make their nests of coarse grasses, reed stalks, and such things, lined with fine grasses.
A happier pair of birds than these little Wrens it would be hard to find.
This was fastened to the branch, and the birds promptly took possession of it, their numbers increasing nightly, until at least forty Wrens crowded into the box which did not seem to afford room for half the number.
These Wrens inhabit marshy and weedy bottom lands along river courses, and have all the brisk manners and habits of the family.
Generally the favorite house of refuge of the wrens was the little spruce, into which their pursuer made no attempt to follow them.
The wrens had been hanging around, evidently with an eye on the place (such little comedies may be witnessed anywhere), and now very naturally thought it was their turn.
Her jays and wrens do not live together on the most amicable terms.
The chatter of a second brood of nearly fledged wrens is heard now (August 20) in an oriole's nest suspended from the branch of an apple-tree near where I write.
The wrensfinally gave up the fight, and their enemies reared their second brood in peace.
What rent do the wrenspay for their little houses?
It takes so kindly to the boxes we set up for martins, bluebirds and wrens that, where sparrows do not interfere, it now prefers them to the hollow trees, which once were its only shelter.
Of course the little one-roomed cottages should have a number of small holes bored on the sides near the top to give the wrensplenty of fresh air.
Beware of a pair of nesting wrens in a box nailed against a piazza post: they beat any alarm clock for arousing the family at sunrise.
Wrens really prefer boxes to the holes in stumps and trees they used to occupy before there were any white people with thoughtful children on this continent.
Now, the day before there were no wrens near; not one was skulking along the hillside looking for nesting sites.
I used to think that the wrenswere the quickest tempered of all our birds, but probably the humming-birds are their equals in this respect.
The true wrens are found in thickets, often in the neighborhood of dwellings, in which they frequently build, while the two marsh wrens occur on both salt and fresh water marshes throughout the country.
The creeper-wrens are found among the cacti of the far southwest, while the rock-wrens occur among thickets in a similar region.
In the matter of size the gold, and fire-crested wrens agree, measuring but a trifle more than three and a half inches from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail!
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