GOIICORD, 
1902 
October 28 
Q have neglected to keep up this journal during the 
past ten days, partly because I have had a succession of 
g-uests who have taken up most of my evenings but largely, also, 
because I have made few observations v/orth recording. The 
weather has been warm for the most part but on the mornings 
of the 22nd and 26th water in shallow pools and the surface 
of the ground, also, were frozen. Most of the Robins and 
Rusty Grackles and all the Chipping Sparrows have departed 
and I have seen no Bluebirds for several days. The flight 
of Yellow-rumps has also about ended. I have as yet noted 
no Fox nor Tree Sparrows. Titlarks still pipe over the river 
marshes at evening and Horned Larks have appeared within 
the past few days. Heavy flights of Crows have been passing 
almost daily during the past week. 
Whenever I have been in the neighborhood of Lawrence’s 
pine woods at evening I have heard one of the Great Horned 
Owls. Usually he has hooted only a few times just before or 
a little after sunset. On the evening of the 23rd I noted 
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his hooting as follows: — Hoo , hoo- hoo-hop , hop-hoo . hoo , 
there being no variation in respect to the nuiiiber of notes 
on this occasion. The next morning an hour or two before 
daylight (about 3 A, M., I think it was) Gilbert and I were 
both av/akened by the loud voice of an Owl of this species 
which was certainly very near the farm-house and, we both 
thought, in the big elm vdiich shades the drivevYay. He hooted 
a dozen or fifteen times and regularly gave only five notes. 
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