Cambridge, Mass.
1912.
Aug. 19
[August 19, 1912]

Screech Owls in Garden.

  Two young Owls in bent birch. Their red mother in top of
cherry mobbed by 2 Orioles & 5 or 6 Crow Blackbirds at 1 P.M.
At 7 P.M. I heard her wailing in the Jungle.
Aug. 20 [August 20, 1912]  Only one Owl found to-day - a young bird on a high perch
in a catalapa [catalpa] tree in the Jungle. 
Aug. 21 [August 21, 1912]  Three Owls, all young ones we thought, spent day perched high in
a cherry tree. They were mobbed early in the forenoon by numerous
irate & excited birds among which 2 Blue Jays, a Robin, a young [female]
Scarlet Tanager, 3 young Orioles, many House Sparrows and at least 
15 Crow Blackbirds, all these raising their voices in united 
and well-nigh deafening clamor which disturbed me not a 
little as I sat writing in the Museum.
Aug. 22 [August 22, 1912]  Old Owl in cherry tree by tool house; one young in another
cherry tree; one flying about Garden in evening twilight.
Aug. 23 [August 23, 1912]  Old Owl in cherry tree by tool house, 2 young in bent
birch. Saw an Owl fly across Sparks Street at 7 P.M.