. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 9. Game protection; Birds. 40 41. Photograph by Samuel S. Dickey, Cambridge Springs. Fie 30 NEST OF BEWICK'S WREN IN CORNER OF OIL DERRICK This photograph, which was taken in Greene County, shows the strange situation in which this wren often builds. Carolina Wren: This large handsome wren is restricted to the southern and southwestern counties of the State. It is a brilliant songster and is worthy of much attention. I have not had the best results personally, in attracting these birds with nesting boxes. Houses recommended by various authorities a
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 9. Game protection; Birds. 40 41. Photograph by Samuel S. Dickey, Cambridge Springs. Fie 30 NEST OF BEWICK'S WREN IN CORNER OF OIL DERRICK This photograph, which was taken in Greene County, shows the strange situation in which this wren often builds. Carolina Wren: This large handsome wren is restricted to the southern and southwestern counties of the State. It is a brilliant songster and is worthy of much attention. I have not had the best results personally, in attracting these birds with nesting boxes. Houses recommended by various authorities are virtually the same as for House Wrens as regards size, although the opening should be one and one-fourth or one and one-lialf inches in diameter. After some study and experience with these birds the following surprising suggestions are offered. The box most often used was fastened three feet from the ground to a post in a thickly weeded area at the border of a woods. This box was entirely open on one side save for small strips at the top and bottom an inch in width. The box was well shaded. The large dome-shapcil ;t was built in the box but the materials stuck out in all directions, and the cup of the nest pro])er was neatly hidden deep in a lower corner. When I found the birds using this box I carelessly tacked up a large soap box at a sloping angle on the back of a shed and was surprised to see another pair of Carolina Wrens 1 •"• w d £. U^ f \ -. instantly take possession; they nearly filled that box (which was about two feet by tliree feet by one foot) with weed stalks, and other nesting material and seemed to regard it an exceiHionally good find. And nesting boxes, the acme of neatness, apparently were not preferable to such ramshackle abodes as these! It should be remembered, however, that Carolina Wrens like dark, sheltererl places in which to nest. Tree Swallow: In some i)arts of Pennsylvania, notably in the northern and more mountainous counties (an
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