In the spring his love song is as surprisingly strong in proportion to his size as the wren's. It seems impossible for such a volume of mellow flute-like melody to pour from a throat so tiny. Before we have a chance to hear it again the singer is off with his tiny queen to nest in some spruce tree beyond the Canadian border.
The noisy contents of a soap box: a family of house wrens.
The marsh wren's round cradle swung among the rushes.
CHAPTER III
A GROUP OF LIVELY SINGERS
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren
Brown Thrasher
Catbird
Mockingbird