Concord, Mass.
1902.
Oct. 28
(No 2)
  Under date of Oct.11th I noted hearing in Prescott's pines,
at evening, an ow, ow which sounded familiar but which I
could not refer to its author. Gerald Thayer tells me that
it was without question the call of a Saw-whet Owl &
I believe that it was the same cry which I used to hear 
in autumn while camping at Moll's Rock, Lake Umbagog
and which my guides said was made by a Saw-whet.
The Thayers (Abbott & Gerald) and I heard it again last
evening, indistinctly & mingled with certain other sounds wholly
new to me. We had seated ourselves on the border of a wood
road which leads through some dense white pines just to
the northwards of the Green Field and had remained there
for upwards of half-an-hour abstaining from conversation
and all movement but "squeaking" every few minutes in the
hope of attracting something of interest. Meanwhile twilight
had faded into night and the gloom inside the trees had
become so deep that we could scarce see one another's
faces. Suddenly we heard a confused medley of low, slight
sounds, some of them nasal and whining, others odd little
chuckling or wheezy noises and among them indistinctly as
I have just said and given but once the ow note which
Gerald considered almost certain includes that we were
listening to a Saw-whet. Without question the creature 
was a bird of some kind for it was moving from
place to place in the trees and once we heard it
strike against a dry, resonant pine branch probably
alighting on it abruptly as Owls are wont to do.
It came within about thirty yards of us and after
that we heard no more of it.
Notes of the Saw-whet Owl
  Our squeaking also attracted some fairly large mammal, a
Fox we thought which approached rather noisily on the ground
& then getting our wind made off again.
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