BIRDS OF PEASE MARSH 



over is more satisfactory. As someone has 

 suggested, the Georgian Bay air may make the 

 Bluebirds a bit plumper. For the Wren, just an 

 inch and a quarter is sufficient. 



Of all birds Jenny Wren is the easiest to suit 

 with a home. She has nested here in boxes of 

 various shapes and sizes, from houses made 

 from sections of hollow wood, to little tin cans, 

 simply fastened up, with the proper openings 

 made in them. One little Wren house had a 

 chimney on the top, and the father bird de- 

 lighted so in singing on the chimney that a 

 long lath was nailed up at another nest box, 

 and an hour later the Wren living in that 

 house was perched on the top of it singing at 

 the top of his voice. 



Once we made a sad mistake. Pet, the Shet- 

 land pony, had just been clipped and somebody 

 thought that the thick, long black hair would 

 be just the thing for the birds to line their nests 

 with, and accordingly put a handful of it in 

 several of the nest boxes. The birds declined 

 to locate in those houses. One very quaint 

 little wren house, made out of a bit of hollow 

 pump log and fastened against the stone wall, 

 contained a little bit of it. The house and loca- 



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