Cambridge, Mass.
1912
July 3
[July 3, 1912]

Young Screech Owls in the Garden.

  Three young Screech Owls, perched in a row on a branch of the 
catalopa [catalpa] overspreading the garden walk by the Museum, were found 
and shown to me by Percy Harris (our gardener) this morning.
They spent the day there in the dense shade of the big leaves. 
An old bird, presumably the mother, joined them about 1 P.M., 
was gone at 3 P.M. and back again at 6 P.M. She looked 
gray but I could not see her well against the sky. I heard 
the young in the Garden last night and saw them flying 
about in the twilight there this evening. It seems probable 
that they were hatched in the box in the Jungle in which 
a Flicker nested years ago and which Screech owls have 
since occupied in winter. They may, however, have come from 
a greater distance for they are strong of wing now although 
still in first plumage. Percy saw two young Owls & an 
old one in the Jungle last summer while I was in 
England. They were there daily through July, he says.