. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . erhapsa little largfer. The parent Creepers are very cautiousbirds in entering or retiring from their nest, and it maybe their home is but a few yards from our door,yet we never discover it, at least by the motions of thelittle owners. This little creature, like the Woodpecker, is not amigratory bird, and we see him in the woods through-out the year. In winter time one would think thata frail little bird like him, whose food consists oiinsects alone or nearly so, would be hard pr
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . erhapsa little largfer. The parent Creepers are very cautiousbirds in entering or retiring from their nest, and it maybe their home is but a few yards from our door,yet we never discover it, at least by the motions of thelittle owners. This little creature, like the Woodpecker, is not amigratory bird, and we see him in the woods through-out the year. In winter time one would think thata frail little bird like him, whose food consists oiinsects alone or nearly so, would be hard pressed forsustenance. Yet that is not the case, and he livessumptuously the winter through. If the Swallow, how-ever, were to visit us at this time, he would undoubt-edly perish, for the air in winter is almost clear of insectlife ; but the little Creeper can live in ease when the sunis at Capricorn, just because he can climb so dexterously,for the bark of trees abounds with insects, and moreparticularly their eggs and larvae, which lie there torpiduntil called into life by the genial presence of the THE WREN. The Wren is one of the smallest birds known inBritain. But though small, we can seldom pass him byas he creeps up the fences and under the tangled vege-tation, trilling forth music both loud and sweet, or utter-ing his long string of startling call notes. Though asoft-billed or insect-feeding bird, Nature has not intendedhim to be a wanderer, and he remains with us throughoutthe year. He knows not the barren moor or common,so dear to the Grouse and Plover, but, a lover of arborealseclusion, we find him in the densest woods, the shrub-beries, the fields, the hedgerows, the lanes, and sunkenfences ; so too about heaps of old timber or brushwood,in gardens, and on the wooded banks of rivers andstreams. We may justly call this little creature a perennialsongster, one of the three or four that warble incessantly,except in the moulting season, summer and winter alike
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