--Apple-Mail-41--526346524 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I, too, have a pair of Bewicks's Wrens in my small backyard. I hear their lovely song often during the day. The surprising thing to me is that they have been everyday customers at our mixed-nut feeder for at least a couple of years, and I have seen them occasionally at the thistle feeder. We have also had a leucistic Bewick's Wren that shows up here once in awhile. I quote here from "The Birds of North America Online." Our nut feeder most likely would be considered under vegetable matter of which less than 3% comprises the Bewick Wren's typical diet: DIET On basis of analyses of 146 stomachs taken in all months in California, major components of adult diet include: bugs (Hemiptera; 31%), beetles (Coleoptera; 21%), bees and wasps (Hymenoptera; 17%), caterpillars and some butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera; 12%), grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera; 4%), flies (Diptera) and other insects (6%), spiders (Araneida; <5%), and vegetable matter (fruit pulp, seeds, plant rubbish, <3%; Beal 1907). Largest quantity of vegetable matter was eaten in Dec and Jan (Beal 1907). Marilyn Trabert (Rudgear area) Walnut Creek --Apple-Mail-41--526346524 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I, too, have a pair of Bewicks's = Wrens in my small backyard.=A0 I hear their lovely song often during the = day.=A0 The surprising thing to me is that they have been everyday = customers at our mixed-nut feeder for at least a couple of years, and I = have seen them occasionally at the thistle feeder.=A0 We have also had a = leucistic Bewick's Wren that shows up here once in awhile.I quote here from "The = Birds of North America Online."=A0 Our nut feeder most likely would be = considered under vegetable matter of which less than 3% comprises the = Bewick Wren's typical diet:DIETOn basis of analyses of 146 stomachs taken in all months in = California, major components of adult diet include: bugs (Hemiptera; = 31%), beetles (Coleoptera; 21%), bees and wasps (Hymenoptera; 17%), = caterpillars and some butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera; 12%), = grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera; 4%), flies (Diptera) and other = insects (6%), spiders (Araneida; <5%), and vegetable matter (fruit = pulp, seeds, plant rubbish, <3%; Beal 1907). Largest = quantity of vegetable matter was eaten in Dec and Jan (Beal 1907).
Marilyn Trabert(Rudgear = area)Walnut Creek