CONCORD 
gPurdie left me this morning and Faxon arrived by the 
5.30 P. M. train. .1 spent the forenoon at Ball’s Hill 
overseeing the men who are at work on the new cabin.I In the 
afternoon I sailed down to the great Bedford Swamp where I dug 
some Ehodora bushes and then crossed the river (still under 
andjvisited the young Great Horned Owls. They were in the 
same place but they had moved about one quarter around the 
trunk of the pine, evidently as I thought because the wind 
had changed,for ye sterday, when it ’was north, they were on the 
south side of the tree and to-day, when it was south-east, on 
the north-west side. 
While I was looking at them, standing about 20 yards 
away, one of the old birds began hooting in the pines behind 
me; presently it appeared and, flying from tree to tree, 
moved abound me in a half circle, keeping just beyond gun- 
range and behaving in the most curious manner. Alighting 
close to the trunk of a pine, at a height of 30 or 40 feet 
above the ground, it would follow the branch out nearly to 
the end, walking steadily and at times rather quickly, its 
body horizontal, its wings wide-spread and flapping slowly 
like those of a big butterfly, its head lowered considerably 
below the line of the back, its horns slightly raised and 
its wyes glaring fiercely. It hooted every half minute or 
so in low, cooing tones. Its mate also hooted in answer but 
soon afterwards flew off to another piece of woods . 
sail) to Lawrence's woods where I jgot some 
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