Concord, Mass.
1911.
Oct 3
(No 2)
[October 3, 1911]

Pied-billed Greebe rises on wing

a little higher up the river. As I was watching one
of them just before sunset it took wing rising out
of the water against a light breeze without
much apparent difficulty & flying about 100 yards
before dropping into the river again. It could not
see us at the time & there was nothing visable [visible]
anywhere to cause it alarm so I concluded that
it must have flown merely because it was in haste
to reach the place where it alighted.

Screech Owls, one with peculiar notes.

  Heard two Screech Owls in the belt of willows
& maples on the river bank opposite Pad Island
just as twilight was falling. One uttered dozens of
times a peculiar drawling, rather nasal er-e or ah-e 
very cat-like in quality. After a while it began uttering
the usual shivering wailing cry which the others
answered in similar tones occasionally varying to the rolling
cry.