. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ion. — Pacific coast region fromBritish Columbia south to California. Nest. --In holes in trees or about buildings,made largely of twigs, lined with : 5 to 7, pinkish white, thickly spottedwith reddish brown or brownish purple. The house wrens are just ordinary birds,with no striking marks and nothing musi-cal or brilliant about their songs, but they are such persistently jolly little songsters that their charm is quiteirresistible. Wherever you
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ion. — Pacific coast region fromBritish Columbia south to California. Nest. --In holes in trees or about buildings,made largely of twigs, lined with : 5 to 7, pinkish white, thickly spottedwith reddish brown or brownish purple. The house wrens are just ordinary birds,with no striking marks and nothing musi-cal or brilliant about their songs, but they are such persistently jolly little songsters that their charm is quiteirresistible. Wherever you meet them they are always singing, beit about house or barn, deserted cabin, or old sycamore. Ebullientis the only word that expresses them. Their notes fairly tumbleover each other, they are poured out so fast. At times the littlemusicians become ecstatic, and raise their quivering wings till theyalmost meet over the back. Besides their song the wrens have ananxious scolding chatter, and the mother bird a quieting which she uses to soothe her brood. Raising a brood is a protracted process with the wrens. With one.
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