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On the 24th she wrote: House wren has two eggs! (Lee'rikes exclamation marks /€nd uses them often.) For 25, she wrote: Bluebird has fwiTeggs!
May flowed toward June. The house wren sang and sang, the bluebird kept watch. I saw him fly at a house sparrow that landed on his nest box. The sparrow promptly abandoned his perch.
On June 3, Lee recorded the temperature at 74 degrees at 7:30 a.m. Later she wrote, H H H, her shorthand for hazy, hot and humid. The usual birds appeared at the feeder. An indigo bunting appeared at the feeder at dusk and was recorded with three exclamation marks. In red ink, Lee Trott wrote at the end of the day, Lovely rainbow — horizon to horizon — at 8:20 p. m.
On June 3, we again left for a week and returned June 14. I quickly sensed that all was not as it should be. With dismay, we saw the house wren disappear into the box containing the bluebird nest. I opened the top of the box and saw one newly hatched bluebird — barely alive — and four eggs. The nest was pulled apart.
What had happened? I would never know but the disturbance of the bluebird nest looked like house wren work. On checking the house wren nest, I found it empty A few feathers made me think the female had been killed. What predator had disrupted the wren nest and possibly killed the incubating female? Was
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