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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1953)
CAROLINA WREN SPH ERE IS A GROUP of dimin- brown birds whose tails are usually held either erect or de pressed but who rarely hold any pose tor a considerable length of time. The sounds they produce are usually all out of proportion to the size of the birds. The group is probably best known by its representative, the house wren, which obligingly occupies or at least appears to occupy the bird houses put up by hopeful There are three subspecies recog nized of which the Florida wren extends the range into Florida and the Lom itaw ren from Texas across the M exican border. Possibly the most sta rtlin g thing about the Carolina wren is that it is m ore or less to be found over its range at any tim e of the year. On occasion it m ay sing, even w ith the snow on the ground its estatically repeated “tea k e t tle ” or “whee-uilel" song. This of course endears it to n a tu ra l ists who at the w inter season m ay be m ore or less starved fo i a sound such as they hear from this popular bird. The nest is a m ass of vegetable m aterial commonly hidden in stum ps, fallen tree-tops or some tim es in buildings. T here is an inner lining of finer m aterial. In the nest the 4 to 6 eggs are laid. They are w hite or cream with cinnamon, brown and lavender m arkings. T here may be two or th ree broods a year and incuba tion for 12 days is carried on chiefly by the female that is sm aller than the m ale usually. The food of the Carolina wren is probably 95 per cent insects and includes chinch bugs, cock roaches. grasshoppers, crickets, cotton-boll weevils, cucum ber beetles, m oths and sim ilar pests. Although this bird is less likely to come to hum an habitations than the house wren, it can be enticed to a feeding station by ham burger.. For th at m atte r, in these days that might not be a tra it lim ite d to our feathered friends. A pparenly the wren has no habits co ntrary to those that suit m an’s in terests and it has been aw’arded the honor of being the sta te bird of South Carolina. The N ational Wildlife F edera tion encourages the study of birds of this type through banding and other means because those who learn to study one form of na tu re carefully usually have the habit of being rational in their evaluation of o th er forms of na ture. —♦---------- ♦ D esk T rays., Yeltons. B r m k in g s I la r b o r P ilo t 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953 Hello World Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C harles N orm an of Sm ith River, a daugh ter, Cynthia Helen, on Tuesday, F ebruary 24, at Seaside hospital. Crescent City. Dr. Ronniger a t tending. ♦ Born. March 2, at Seaside hos pital. a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Rettke. ♦ - Mr. anti Mrs. Donald Thom p son are parents of a daughter, born Feb. 27 at Seaside hospital. ♦ A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjam in Beal Sunday, M arch 1, at Seaside hospital. C arolina W ren C1952 National W ild life Federation ’ young naturalists. Closely related to the wrens are the w ren-t»ti and the dippers or w ater ouzels, with which we are not here p a r ticularly concerned. The wrens are usually the size of the sm al> r sparrows. The Carolina wren m easures six inch es including the two-inch tail and the beak which is about 2/3 inch long. The Carolina wren is rath er conspicuously reddish for a wren and lacks conspicuous m arkings except for a long w hite or pale brown stripe over each eye. The under parts are buff and the throat whitish. The wings are short as they are in most wrens. The black bars on the flanks of the w inter wren and the white- edged tail of the Bewick’s wren are lacking in the Carolina wren. Carolina wrens breed from northern Florida to central Texas north to N ebraska and the lower valleys of the Hudson and Con necticut riv e r Som etim es they are found farth er north into On tario. 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