I had mis-identified this bird as a Carolina Wren. More careful inspection shows that "bold white stripe above eye" (Alsop, p. 380) of the Carolina Wren is missing in this bird. Tveten (275) says of the House Wren, "It is a spring and fall migrant thoughout most of Texas and remains though the winter in all but the Panhandle and the extreme northern edge of the state ... This five-inch bird is brown, with only a faint eyebrow stripe, and the lack of prominent facial stripes distinguishes it from most other wren species."

Photo taken with a Nikon D70 using a Nikon 300mm f4.5.

October 21, 2006.