Cambridge, Mass.
1912
August 8
[August 8, 1912]

Family of Screech Owls in The Garden.

  The Owls are showing an increasing tendency to scatter
and perhaps are beginning to desert our grounds. We could
but find three to-day - the old bird in the cherry tree top, 
one young in the lilacs, another in the Jungle.
August 9 [August 9, 1912]  Three young, one in cherry, two together in Blue Spruce
in jungle - a new station tree.
August 10 [August 10, 1912]  Percy & I looked long and carefully for the Owls but
found only one, a young bird perched in the cherry tree top
where two Jays discovered and mobbed him, with prolonged 
outcry.
August 12 [August 12, 1912]  Three young together in the bent paper birch where they spent
the day. We failed to find the old one but heard her uttering
the normal wailing cry at 7.30 P.M.
August 13 [August 13, 1912]  Three young Owls again in bowed canoe birch. No others seen or heard.
August 14 [August 14, 1912]  Three young spent day together in blue spruce in Jungle.
The adult red bird was on her favorite perch in the cherry tree.