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Concord, Mass.
1898
June 21
(No 6)
  As I stood watching him, peering up through a
small opening in the pine branches which concealed me
very effectively, the Jays (there were but two of them and
they were doubtless the pair whose nest Gilbert found a
week or more ago near the place where he turned out the
young Owl) attacked him repeatedly and with much
spirit dashing past him within a foot or less and 
striking at his head with their bills, screaming all the
while, of course. He paid little attention to them but
once, when one of them came over him suddenly from
behind, he ducked his head nervously. At length I
moved slightly and he at once discovered me fixing
his great eyes on me for a moment and then
flying off over the woods in the direction of
Ball's Hill. Altogether it was an interesting experience
to have in these Concord woods. I did not
see the young Owl, however.