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ADULT SCREECH OWL. HIDING POSE 



The remaining young I carried home with me. Fed on raw 

 meat, they grew up and made interesting pets. 



There remain now the two httle fellows — the Screech 

 and the Saw-whet or Acadian Owls — for us as " owlers " to 

 consider. The tremulous hooting of the Screech Owl is still 

 a common sound in rural New England, and is even heard 

 in towns and villages. I love to sit on my piazza of a moon- 

 light night in autumn and be serenaded by one of the little 

 fellows from a Norway spruce near by. But though they 

 be ever so common, it is seldom that one is seen. Most often 



