Glendale, Mass.
1913 
July 12 
(No 2)
[July 12, 1913]

House Wrens nest in last year's Robins' nest.

by merely adding to it a loosely interwoven superstructure
of [?] dead twigs which rise almost to the plastered 
ceiling. Through these the parent birds seem to pass at 
various places, but chiefly downward from near the top, 
during their frequent visits to their young to which they 
are carrying winged insects of considerable size, as well as 
what look like small spiders; also small, green measuring worms. One may stand within 
8 feet of the nest & watch them come & go at all hours 
of the day. Occasionally just before and frequently soon after, feeding his offspring the 
male bird bursts into full song once or twice,
when his rich, gushing voice penetrates through the open
door to almost every part of the house. When I arrived 
here on the 9th [July 9, 1913] the cheeping of the young was intermittent 
and so feeble as to be barely audible a few feet away.
It has since become well-nigh incessant & so shrill 
& so insistent at the near approach of a food bearing