Carolina wren
Images copyright by Mark A. Chappell



These bright rusty-colored wrens are very common in the American southeast.   The one above at left was scolding me (probably because I was near its nest) in Perdenales State Park near San Antonio, Texas.   The other birds were in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Florida.

  • upper left: Canon EOS1v, 500 mm f4 IS lens + 2X converter, electronic flash, Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color (2003)
  • others: digitial capture Canon 1D3, 500 mm f4 IS lens + 1.4X converter, electronic flash (2008)