Glendale, Mass.
1913 
July 12
[July 12, 1913]

House Wrens nest in last year's nest of Robin under portico

  The main entrance to the Frenches' house, in
constant use by all the members of the family & their guests
is through an open porch facing northward on the 
driveway and supported outwardly by two stout, round 
wooden columns. On some projecting ornamental moulding 
at the top of one of these, close under the rough 
plastered ceiling of the roof of the porch & about 8 feet 
above its flooring, a pair of Robins nested successfully last 
year. This spring they brought out their first brood from 
a nest placed on the corresponding moulding of the opposite 
column and they are now feeding almost fully grown 
young of a second brood in a nest built onside the 
porch among woodbine trailing over it. Their last 
year's nest, still in excellent preservation, was 
taken possession of several weeks ago by a pair 
of House Wrens who made it serve their purposes