Concord, Mass.
1901.
July 10
(No 2)
  On June 6th Gilbert saw a young Screech Owl covered with
down looking out of a hollow branch of an apple tree at
the farm. On the evening of June 16th and again on that
of the 18th he heard several young birds in the oak
woods on Davis' Hill. On the morning of July 1st he
found and showed me a brood of the young with
their parent perched in a low tree (an oak) at the
E. end of Ball's Hill. On the night of Jul 8th I heard
two or three young calling in the oaks over the new
cabin at about 9 o'clock. This evening shortly after
8 o'clock the same brood came close about the old
cabin. There seemed to be at least four of them, all
apparently young for their tremulous, whining calls were
much feebler and more broken as well as harsher
than the corresponding notes of old birds. One of them
seemed to be on the ground directly in front of the
door or, what is more probable, it may have been 
perched on one of the low posts which surround the
wild flower garden. After listening to them for a 
few minutes I went out with a lighted candle
when the whole brood moved off through the
woods. I did not see any of them but I could
easily trace their progress by their almost incessant
cries.
July 12
  This afternoon at 6.30 and hence sometime before sunset Gilbert
found the Screech Owls whining and soon found them sitting
in a row on the branch of an oak behind his cabin.
They flew before he could get very near them and scattered
about among the trees on the hillside above where they
were keeping up a constant calling to one another
when I visited the place a little later)
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