Cambridge, Mass.
1912
July 13
[July 13, 1912]

Family of Screech Owls in Garden.

  Mother Owl in catalopa [catalpa] and 3 young together in 
a leafy black birch that overspreads the grape arbor - there all day.
July 14 [July 14, 1912]  Four young spent day in grape arbor. Mother not seen (Percy).
July 15 [July 15, 1912]  Four young in arbor through forenoon and there through 
afternoon. Their mother could not be found.
July 16 [July 16, 1912]  Old Owl in catalopa [catalpa] all day. At 1 pm I nearly stepped 
on one of the young that was sitting on the ground in the middle 
of a broad, gravelled path, where the sun beat down hotly 
from a clear sky. As I stopped within a foot of it it snapped 
its bill at me and then flew up the walk into the grape arbor. 
Scarce two minutes before this Percy and I had gone along the 
walk without seeing anything of the bird. A few minutes 
later he found the other three young in the cherry tree by 
the tool house where they have not been seen before.
July 17 [July 17, 1912]  Old bird in catalopa [catalpa] through day. Four young in arbor at 8 A.M. 
but gone from there and not to be discovered elsewhere after 1 P.M. 
At evening I saw one flying about among the trees.