Common Wren Leaving Nest
The Kearton Stereoscopic Nature Studies
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
88 mm (H)174 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1108921
Summary
image of a wren bird leaving a nest among some foliage
Marks and inscriptions
"The Common Wren. A Who does not know the love of this charming wee bird, with its nut-brown coat of feathers, cocked-up tail, and active independent ways? It stays with us all year round, commences and finishes with almost startling suddenness. The Common Wren works hard "from early morn til dewy eve," exploring dark holes and corners in old moss-grown walls and hollow stumps, where other birds apparently never think of going, in search of lurking spiders and other edible tit-bits. It has two peculiarities about which there is still a good deal of mystery. One is that it builds a number of extra unfinished nests called "cocks' nests," the purpose of which no man knows with any degree of certainty. It has been asserted that they are meade in roost in, but I have by painstaking investigation proved that there is little truth in this. The second is that nobody knows what becomes of the great numbers of Wrens reared in this country. Our first picture shows a Wren about to take a large caterpillar into her nest for a member of her family of eight chicks, and the second in the act of coming out on her way to search for more food. R. Kearton, F.Z.S." printed on back of stereograph card
Makers and roles
The Kearton Stereoscopic Nature Studies