Nest of Scops Asio
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1876.
Tuesday
April 25 [April 25, 1876] Cloudy and very disagreeable with E. [east] wind.
After breakfast Charlie drove me up
to the Warren run where I hunted
hard for a woodcocks nest with Shot.
Flushed a [male] cock within 6 ft. of the spot
where I took my nest last year
but did not succeed in finding either 
the [female] or nest though I doubt not that  
it was there somewhere. Shot worked
very finely making the excellent record
of 8 points on 9 birds and 4 of them 
grouse. Started also a bevy of 4 quail
and got points on them after they 
scattered. Saw a few Juncos, and
a moderate number of D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum]
et coronata [Dendroica coronata].
  Wenesday [Wednesday]
April 26 [April 26, 1876] Cloudy and chilly with E. [east] wind. Took the
8.40 Watrn. [Watertown] car and got off at Frazars to 
visit his owls nest with him but found he
had gone already so struck over to the nest
and examined it carefully. The [female] was
sitting on 2 eggs Sat. [Saturday April 23, 1876] but F. [Frazar] (as I afterwards
learned) found the whole [?] cleaned
out this morning. The hole was a natural
opening where a limb had rotted out, [delete]enlarged[/delete]
afterwards excavated by a Colaptes which
raised a brood of young therein in 1874.
Last year F. found a Scops with 3 young
in the hole & left them untouched. The
cavity was of the usual interior shape &
descended 12 in. The bottom was
covered with feathers, all that I could plainly see
being those of the robin. Underneath