Saturday I found a dead Bewick's wren about two feet from a predated nest.
The wren had a wound on it's back but was other wise intact.
The nest was build inside a faucet cover made of styrofoam- one of the boob
shaped kind, over a hose bib about two feet off the ground. It had been
pulled away and one egg was broken, but there are still four cream colored
ones intact.
The nest is quite the urban affair. The base layer is the pink insulation
material we filled the cover with, then grass, plastic, dog hair and feathers.
We took the nest out and took off the cover because it was obviously note a
good choice of homesites.

Question #1 is: if the predator
was a cat, why didn't it eat the wren, or at least carry it away?

Question # 2 is: I have read that wren will attack other birds nests - was the
wren the predator and this was someone else's nest?

Clarice Clark
Puyallup, WA. 98371
mailto:jbroadus at seanet.com