Dragon 
Flies 
Screech 
Owl 
This is the height of the Dragon Fly season. The 
variety of species and the number of individuals to be 
seen during an afternoon paddle of a few miles on the 
river are simply incredible. In places to-day there were 
thousands in sight at once, most of them the graceful, 
brilliant little 
At about 10 o’clock this evening as I was sitting in 
the house writing, I heard through the open window in the 
direction of the Manse what I took at first to be a Cuckoo, 
but on going to the window and putting out my head I got 
the sound more plainly a second time and at once recognized 
the fact that it was something quite new to me. There were 
five cooing notes given more rapidly than those of a 
Cuckoo but slower than tnose of a Screech Owl andaLl on the 
same key. The tone, however, resembled that of the Owl 
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when cooing and I suspect that Megascops tr 
was really the author of the sound which was repeated six or 
eight times in all, at short intervals. If it really was 
a Screech Owl, it is the first that I have heard in 
Concord this year . I fear the long, hard winter destroyed 
most of these interesting and useful birds. 
