1902.
May 26
(No 2)
sang at intervals for a few minutes at a time
during the middle of the day. Some of them
lay very closely and on several occasions we heard
one of them singing very close at hand among short
grass but could not either see him or flush
him when we came to the spot whence his
se-ip had seemed to issue.
  At noon we drove to the old white pine woods
where the Blackburnian Warblers breed. There were
at least four or five of these birds singing
in the tops of the trees.
  In these woods Mr. Thayer showed me
a Great horned Owls nest. When he found it on
May 18th it contained a single young bird which
would raise its head & look down at him when
he rapped the tree with a stick. He rapped it
hard to-day but could see nothing of the young
Owl. Neither of the parent birds was seen or
heard on either occasion. The nest was very small
(not larger than a Green Herons) & in the fork
of a white pine about 40 ft above the ground
within 30 yards of a traveled road & in
plain sight of the latter. At the foot of the tree
lay the remains of a water snake (about 2 feet
long) a portion of which had evidently been
eaten by either the old or young bird. There
were no other fragments of food but several pellets
composed chiefly (if not wholly) of Rabbits fur &
bones also long scattered beneath the tree.
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