Cambridge, Mass.
1908
Sept. 8
  Clear and cool with dry bracing air and light west
wind; altogether a brilliantly beautiful day.
  When I entered the Garden about 9 A.M. I heard the
Carolina Wrens almost immediately calling te-e-e-e-er or tear-r-r
and giving the scolding chatter. I soon found both birds in
the neglected newest corner of our place where they were hopping about
on or near the ground in a tangle of golden rod, asters and
other wild flowers. Soon after this the male began singing freely,
keeping it up at intervals for ten or fifteen minutes. At length
he flew up into a pear tree where he sat for several minutes on
a dead branch in bright sunlight preening his feathers. All the
while I was within six yards of him watching him through my
glass. I heard both repeatedly late in the afternoon in various
parts of the Garden. Within ten minutes after leaving them
there about 10 A.M. I drove to Irving's Livery Stable on
Concord Avenue a little beyond Hanson Avenue. Scarcely had I
reached there when a Carolina Wren began scolding and giving
the te-e-e-er call in a yard close to this stable. There were
two or three large trees in the yard but no shrubbery. The bird
seemed to be in one of these trees but I did not see it. It
called or scolded a dozen times or more very near me and I
am absolutely sure that it was a Carolina Wren. On 
reaching the Museum of Comparative Zoology I saw Walter Faxon
who told me that a Carolina Wren has been seen recently in
Belmont by Mr. Nelson, the Museum taxidermist and that
two others have been noted of late in the Concord Arboretum by Mr.
Charles Faxon while still another has been observed in the
grounds of the Bowditch Estate in Brookline. Two more which
Miss Blanche Kendall has had under observation, also in Brookline,
(see her letter to me written last month) bring the total number of birds
reported there for this season from the neighborhood of Boston up to nine.
Carolina Wrens in our Garden
A Carolina Wren on Concord Ave. Cambridge
Carolina Wren in Belmont
Two Wrens at Arboretum. Three Wrens in Brookline