1906.
Oct.12
  Brilliantly clear with light N. W. wind. Heavy white
frost at day break. Middle of day pleasantly warm.
  There are many small birds to-day, scattered about
singly or in small flocks. White-throated Sparrows were
perhaps the most numerous of the northern migrants.
Black poll Warblers are diminishing fast. I saw only
about half a dozen. One of them in low oaks near
Pine Park was feeding in company with an Usnea Warbler.
Saw a Cat bird near the cabin and heard a Maryland
Yellow-throat at the farm near the pond in our berry pasture.
  Started five Carolina Doves this morning among some
dense young trees on the borders of a woody field near the
road that leads from Benson's to the school house and
saw them (?) at evening flying into the oak woods
at the rear of Benson's house.
  As I was standing on the edge of the river in front
of the cabin, about half an hour after sunset, an Owl
which I took to be a Short-eared appeared high in
air over Ball's Hill flying southward. As it passed
over the river and the bordering marsh on the Bedford side
it moved on a nearly level plane, alternately flapping
and sailing, inclining first to one side & then to the other
as if  uncertain of its course. After crossing the belt
of woods beyond the meadow it made a giant circle
and then descended rather steeply apparently to the
meadow lying to the southwest of the dry wooded
ground. This bird was certainly either a Short-eared
or a Long-eared Owl. Its erratic flight & the fact
that it was evidently attracted by the grassy marshes
led me to conclude that it was probably a Short-ear.
Short(?)
eared Owl seen at  evening.