90 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



on June 18th, during another out- 

 ing, we found four of the eggs 

 hatched and one egg intact. Hav- 

 ing at this time, from June 18th to 

 June 28th, made a trip to Medina 

 County to a near relative's farm 

 at the San Geronimo, we again 

 on returning to San Antonio made 

 a trip to the small spring and wren 

 nest and on inspecting this 

 wren nest, we found one of 

 the young and perfectly i!ull- 

 grown wrens sitting snugly inside 

 and peeping outside the nest, and 



morning with proper light for a 

 short time exposure), the camera 

 was placed in focus distance when 

 at this moment one of the two 

 young wrens also escaped the nest. 

 However, the third or last wren, 

 before it made its exit, kept quiet 

 enough right in the front entrance 

 of the nest to make a good view 

 of it. 



The photo shows plainly how 

 iiigi^niouslv the old wrens had 

 pre^iared their nest inside the 

 earth cavity. It was bare of 



A Rare Young Wren on Its Nest Outlet 



on approaching too closely (with 

 the camera) it also, like the olrl 

 wren, shot out of the nest cavity 

 like a bullet and flew quite a dis- 

 tance away. After this one had 

 cleared the front entrance of this 

 nest we noticed two more full- 

 grown baby wrens inside the nest 

 cavity and after some difficulty in 

 placing the camera for a time ex- 

 posure (it being this time a bright 



any shrubbery surrounding it, 

 and situated on a sloping 

 emliankmc-nt. The upper part of 

 the nest material was slightly 

 overhanging the oval-shaped nest 

 cavity and covered above with 

 some broad and dried-up and 

 shriveled leaves. Part of an oval 

 and undeveloped egg is also seen 

 on this picture close to the bird 

 and entrance of the nest. 



