A new
visitor arrived today at the feeder. It had the look of a yellow finch that was
beginning to develop its summer color, but the body shape and markings
resembled more a nuthatch.
Sarah
took down the bird book and started leafing through it for identification. No
mistaking it, we had a Carolina Wren flitting between the feeder and the
hanging suet cake. It was slightly larger than our resident house wrens, which
should arrive within a month or so to take possession of their established
boxes.
The
wren stayed for several minutes, unperturbed by the activity of titmice,
chick-a-dees, and finches. It suddenly took flight and landed on a lower branch
of the big sugar maple near the house, used a small twig to clean its beak
(much in the way a knife is sharpened), and then just departed on its way.
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