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The name "Wren's Nest" came from his discovery of a family of wrens living in the mailbox in the spring of 1895. [5] After several years of correspondence, Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley visited Harris at Wren's Nest in 1900. Harris's children were especially interested in Riley and nicknamed him Uncle Jeems. [6]
The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens is a song cycle by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1867–1870, it was eventually published in 1871. Written in 1867–1870, it was eventually published in 1871.
The recorded source of the children's story "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren" is Isabella Burns, later Mrs Isabella Burns Begg, the youngest sister of Robert Burns. Isabella recalled that her brother, Robert Burns, was the author and that he was in the habit of telling the tale to entertain the younger members of his family at ...
The Wrens of Curragh were a community who lived on the Curragh (plains) of Kildare. [1] The women were called "wrens" because they slept in hollows in the ground which were half in banks or ditches, covered in furze bushes, like the nests that birds in the wren family make. [1]
Bewick's wrens are capable of hanging upside down in order to acquire food, such as catching an insect on the underside of a branch. When it catches an insect, it kills the insect prior to swallowing it whole. Bewick's wrens will repeatedly wipe their beaks on its perch after a meal. Bewick's wrens will visit backyard feeders.
" Winternacht" (Winter night) is an art song for voice and piano composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, setting a poem of the same title by the German poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815–1894). The song is part of his collection Five songs for middle voice and piano , Op. 15, TrV 148.
Like other wrens, they are elusive as they hunt for small insects and spiders, but they readily reveal their positions through their loud songs. These are territorial birds, but the tiny winter wren will roost communally in a cavity in cold weather to help conserve heat.
The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren is a work of Akkadian literature in the form of a disputation, preserved only in late manuscripts. It contains a fable featuring a wren and an eagle . It is an example of poetic expression in the literature of Iraq in the first millennium BCE.