Decembe r 21, 1905 - lionday . 
This morning I went over in Will 
Dickie’s marsh. It was cold and windy. Heard 
one or two tree sparrows call hut did not see 
any. 
Pound a flock of three pine grosbeaks 
in a sheltered corner. I shot all three. I 
hated to do it but wanted the specimens. All 
were immature. Two males and a female. They 
were very tame. I shot all three from nearly 
the same perch on a wire fence. The second came 
down to look at the first and the third at the 
other two. They gave a low note tur-r. Also got 
a male downy woodpecker. 
December 25, 1905 - Thursday. ^ 
This morning I went out to take a bird 
census but had poor luck. It was cold and was 
snowing. Saw four chicadees, four white-breasted, 
nuthatches and one each of the following tree 
sparrow, junco and bluejay. 
Heard Tommy the burrowing owl 
( Speotyto cunicularia hypogea ) give a note like 
tuck tuck tuck. IT is simply a callnote. 
Tput in a dish of water and then 
Watched him through a knot hole. He sat and 
looked at it and it was laughable to watch him. 
He would stretch up as high as possible and 
turn his head in different positions and then 
bow profoundly two or three times. Finally 
flew down and cautiously approached it with the 
same motions. He perched upon the edge of it 
and finally dipped his bill in it. He did not 
like it and after shaking of as much as possible 
cleaned the rest off from his bill on a board, 
and then losing all interest in it flew up into 
the windov. r . He is very curious. Any new object 
is regarded carefully until he thinks it is 
Harmless, and then he investigates it. V/hen 
Watched in this way he seems alert and runs 
