Concord, Mass.
1911.
Oct. 13
(No 3)
[October 13, 1911]

Long-eared Owl.

had looked round and showed its ear tufts but twice
it erected them for a moment and I saw them outlined
distinctly against the sky above the tree. Although they
looked rather short for those of a Long-eared Owl I
have little or no doubt that the bird was a representative
of that species. Its flight was slow, easy, graceful,
somewhat erratic and, on the whole, not unlike that
of a Night Hawk although at times suggesting that of
a big moth. Flapping its broad wings a few times it
would glide without further effort for twenty or thirty
yards before beating them again, inclining now to the
right, next to the left and often describing circles
of about 100 yards in circumference. More than once
I thought it might be looking for prey while thus engaged.
Twice I heard a low, guttural cry mid way between a grunt
& a dog-like bark which seemed to come from it as
it was on wing but which I could not be sure it uttered.