October 31, 1901 - Thursday. 
This morning at Halls in Sarahoo as I "sat by 
% window studying three house sparrows lit on 
the t op of the porch and four feet away. They 
V s eemed rather wet and drooped their tails. One 
^le had his feathers all puffed out. There was 
a railing around the top of the porch with 
spikes about six inches high projecting from it. 
sat in between two of them. A female lit on 
one of the spikes a little beyond him and 
turned around on it. 
This seemed to anger him and he flew at her 
a ud knocked her off and then chased her off through 
he trees. Art Ilall rapped on the window and the 
remaining one looked up but was not afraid. After 
a while it flew off. 
Tonight I was up by hr. Erwin's. Heard a 
screech owl wailing to himself some distance off 
o the west. It was so far away that I could not 
tstinguish much except a shuddering trembling 
bote, i heard it several times. This is my first 
D record of the screech owl for tiiis locality. 
I 
NOVEMBER 
r November 1, 1901 - Friday. 
, ■‘■■his afternoon 1 saw a curious instance of 
a tent breeding instinct in a this years male 
Relish sparrow. It was hopping around in the 
^°ad with several others and would pick up a straw 
an rt Tor a better one. Then it flew up to 
awning with one and went into a fold of it. It 
e med trying the place for it soon tried 
othe r . Then it came out and still for awhile 
th the straw in its mouth. It soon let it drop 
Q watched interestedly and then flew away, 
j This afternoon about sun down over in the park 
a ^ a tched a great horned owl wake up. It sat in 
h e elm about thirty feet up. It turned its 
around and gave a few harsh rasping notes. 
