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Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. [3] [2] in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1870, it was home to Joel Chandler Harris, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and author of the Uncle Remus Tales, from 1881 until his ...
Video versions have been produced (see External Links). Griffith and Farran published Robin's Yule Song in 1860. [6] Burns and his siblings would have been very familiar with wrens and robins at Lochlea [7] and they are mentioned in some of his poems and the song 'The Robin cam to the wrens nest' as recalled and recited by Jean Armour. [7]
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.
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.
The song is thought by some to represent the human sacrifice of the Year King, or the symbolic substitute slaughter of the wren as "king of the birds" at the end of the year for similar purposes, and such songs are traditionally sung on Boxing Day (26 December), just after the winter solstice. 26 December is sometimes called St Stephen's Day or Wren Day.
House Wren – Video at YouTube; Videos from inside a house wren nest Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine – Video clips showing development from eggs to fledglings (Faunascope) House Wren Stamps at bird-stamps.org; House Wren Bird Sound at Florida Museum of Natural History; House Wren photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
Wren concedes that "my size may be small" – after all, he is called the "one-shekel bird", i.e., the bird who weighs only 8 grams –, but contends that he should still be allowed to subsist. The Sun God apparently punishes Eagle for its pride, whereupon Wren exhorts the "birds from the mountain and the plain" to sing the god's praises for ...
Selected Poems (1923) Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American poet Robert Frost . Published by Henry Holt , it is Frost's third poetic volume.