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The flight will be swift and silent, returning to the nest at short intervals 
carrying various kinds of mice, shrews, bats, moles, muskrats, young 
rabbits, gophers, squirrels, rats and frogs, besides grasshoppers, beetles, 
crickets, katydids and occasionally birds. As many birds live or roost in 
the marsh their movements when disturbed by an owl may be the cause of 
their being caught, not so much that the owl would be hunting birds. 
Hunting through the night, it has an acute sense of hearing which helps it 
locate its prey. Then when daylight comes it finds its roost in a well 
sheltered place, becoming drowsily inactive all day, sleeping so soundly that 
it is not easily awakened, but if disturbed it flies with a bewildered flight. 
Screech Owl Takes a Sun Bath 
If barn owls linger too far north during severe winters they have been 
known to perish, but man is their greatest enemy, killing them because he 
thinks they destroy chickens and game birds. The owls are also used for 
mounted specimens and are fast diminishing in number. What a shame 
that man is so blind as to be his own worst enemy in destroying such 
valuable rodent killers. 
One of three treasured experiences with saw-whet owls occurred May 
15, 1932, on a C.O.S. trip to Mr. Lyon’s in Waukegan. He had caught 
one in a banding trap and had kept it for us to see before banding and 
releasing it. Some time after that, on April 4, 1934, Miss Newton and I 
were going along a trail in the Dunes when, as we came to a thicket in a 
swamp, we saw a long-eared owl right in front of us. It flew. On going 
