. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. J^otes from JTteltJ ant ^ttitjp An Unexpected Visitor When I came downstairs at about six o'clock in the morning on September i6, I was astonished to see a Screech Owl sitting on a radiator in the front hall. My first thought was that someone had put a stuffed bird there as a joke, but I realized at once that he was alive, because he turned his head when I moved to one side. I called to my wife, and she came down to see our visitor, who did not seem to be at all disturbed at our presence. I then got and flew into an adjoining room. He struck against a mi
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. J^otes from JTteltJ ant ^ttitjp An Unexpected Visitor When I came downstairs at about six o'clock in the morning on September i6, I was astonished to see a Screech Owl sitting on a radiator in the front hall. My first thought was that someone had put a stuffed bird there as a joke, but I realized at once that he was alive, because he turned his head when I moved to one side. I called to my wife, and she came down to see our visitor, who did not seem to be at all disturbed at our presence. I then got and flew into an adjoining room. He struck against a mirror and dropped onto a table, where he sat on a pile of books, looking very wise indeed. He did not remain long, however, but flew to my camera, which was standing near-by. After my friend had taken his picture in this position we de- cided not to keep him in the house any longer, so we opened the door, and he flew silently out, being lost to view in some near-by woods. We think the Owl must have come down a chimney into a fireplace, as there was. SCREECH OWL Photographed by H. L. Shaw, Jr. out my camera and took some pictures, one of which is reproduced herewith. Nearly an hour later I went to the house of a neighbor, and got him to come over with his camera. The Owl had remained in the same place all this time, and I found that I could get close to the radiator with- out disturbing him. But finally, when I stood with my hand on the radiator, within a few inches of the Owl, he became alarmed apparently no other way in which he could have gotten in.—H. S. Shaw, Jr., Dover. Mass. A Long-eared Owl Roost What is believed to be an unusual ob- servation was recorded by the undersigned on February 4, 1917, in Goodwin Park, in the outskirts of this city. A telephone message in the morning communicated the (88). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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