Marsh Wren

While looking at a common yellowthroat forage at the edge of the Wetlands yesterday, I saw another bird of about equal size and shape rapidly move at the yellowthroat just as it snatched a spider from a rush stem. It was a marsh wren, the first I’d seen in our Wetlands, a new species to add to the 130 some species so far seen by me here at the Museum. Marsh wren becomes species number 133 on the list. MarshRead more