CONCORD. 
1898 
May 4 
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|_Spent the forenoon at or near the cabin. Heard the 
Thrasher singing in the early morning and saw two White- 
throated Sparrows. No arrivals to-day3 
In the afternoon sailed down stream to Lawrence’s 
woods, taking my 5x7 camera and exposing a dozen plates 
on the young Great Horned Owls. When I first came in sight 
of them they were standing up a yard or more apa.rt and a 
little distance from the tree. One of them repeatedly opened 
and stretched its wings but the next moment they discovered 
me when they at once toddled to the pine and crouched close 
against its trunk, touching one another. As I advanced the 
camera to within about two yards of them, they shrank back 
still closer to the tree and began snapping their bills but 
while I was taking the photographs they lay perfectly motion¬ 
less. I saw no food and no pellets near them but the surface 
of the ground around the pine was white with their chalky 
excrement. 
Before I got me sx the young the old birds began hooting 
and the male presently started off taking the same course as 
on May 2nd and again attracting a mob of Crows the moment he 
left the shelter of the woods. The female came about me in 
a half circle as usual, but for the first time she neglected 
the tactics which she has hitherto adopted and contented her¬ 
self with taking short, restless flights, alighting high up in 
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