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Whats In a \Wrens Nest 
Early in May a pair of Wrens hovered around the yard evidently 
seeking a good nesting place. Finally a small box nest was hung on a wire 
clothesline, not a very good place but seemingly the only available one. 
Mrs. Wren began at once to carry things into the box keeping this up off 
and on all summer but never using the nest. Perhaps a pair of Robins 
nesting nearby, by their continual worrying, kept the Wrens from nesting. 
Finally when the Wrens gave up coming to the box it was taken down 
and the following articles taken out—638 sticks, 21 nails, 23 hairpins, 36 
pieces of wire, 2 safety pins, 2 common pins, | tack, 6 brads, 1 paper clip, 
1 piece of buckle making a total of 731 articles stuffed into that small box. 
Have you other records of Wrens making false nests such as this? 
ELIZABETH MacGrecor, Rockford, [linois. 
"Seen From My Window. 
A good many birds are feeding at our station which is in plain sight 
of our living room window—the Nuthatches, Titmice, Chickadees, Downy 
and Hairy Woodpeckers, two Carolina Wrens, an occasional Cardinal, the 
Brown Creeper, Blue Jay, Junco and the ever present English Sparrows, 
gobbling the food and doing their best to drive the other birds away. 
We have suet boxes hanging to the bushes and small trees near our 
bay window, also a small log with holes in it and packed with suet. This 
is suspended by a wire at one end and, we thought, offered no foothold 
for the Sparrows, but hunger has sharpened their wits and they can fly 
straight to the log, light on the bark while they pick out the suet just as 
the Nuthatches do. If they would only migrate to some “fairer clime.” 
A few rods from the house a Screech Owl has occupied a hollow tree 
for some years. Often we see him sitting in the opening looking as meek 
as a kitten, but if we stop he is sure to dart into his hole out of sight for 
the time being. 
One day this December we were surprised and delighted to have a 
Robin visit us, hopping around on the ground just as though it were early 
spring and disregarding the snow which covered the ground. 
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Hinsdale Nature Club 
The members of the above organization made a combined list of ob- 
servations of birds during the spring and summer of 1934. They listed one 
hundred and twenty-nine species and subspecies, it was announced by Glen 
B. Kersey. Other organizations throughout the state could derive a great 
deal of pleasure by adopting such a plan. 
