A couple weeks ago, in the early morning dusk, I had a bird fly into my
kitchen window. I went out on the deck and it was lying stunned on a
chair cushion. As I approached it flew into a plant we have on the deck
and I decided to leave it alone. An hour or so later I went out on the
deck and it flushed and quickly flew around the side of the house. I had
a 2-3 second look, at best. At the time I thought “That seems like one
of those small dark wrens – basically it looked like a flying mouse”.
Today I was out in the yard watering plants and heard an interesting
“chip chip” coming from a bush. I could see under the bush what was
clearly a wren of some sorts. So I ran back into the house and grabbed
my binocular. When I got back out in the yard there was a Pacific Wren
just sitting on the lawn for me to get a good view of it. Very obliging.
This is the second time I have had this specie in my yard.

Scott Tuthill