. Bird-lore . iscovered him, and then gavehim raw meat and water, which he refusedto touch. On May 26, I found him ontop of another outbuilding, and when Iapproached he tried to fly away, but,instead, fell headlong to the ground. I now discovered that one of his wingshad been injured, probably when trying to find his way out of the yard on thefirst night. I put him back in the yard, and, as he still refused butchers meat,I shot a chipmunk and set it before him. By next morning, not a hairremained to tell of the feast; so I gave him an English Sparrow, and bynightfall only a few feathers were l
. Bird-lore . iscovered him, and then gavehim raw meat and water, which he refusedto touch. On May 26, I found him ontop of another outbuilding, and when Iapproached he tried to fly away, but,instead, fell headlong to the ground. I now discovered that one of his wingshad been injured, probably when trying to find his way out of the yard on thefirst night. I put him back in the yard, and, as he still refused butchers meat,I shot a chipmunk and set it before him. By next morning, not a hairremained to tell of the feast; so I gave him an English Sparrow, and bynightfall only a few feathers were left. On the 28th I gave him a mouse andanother Sparrow, and later found him with the mouse half-way down histhroat, only the hind feet and tail being visible. He had evidently hadenough to eat. I also found a pellet under his roost, apparently made upchiefly of chipmunk remains, and the next day another consisting mainlyof Sparrow feathers. Thus it apparently look from two to three days for thepellets to HIDING IN A CORNER WITH HISEYES ALMOST CLOSED 90 Bird - Lore I refrained from feeding him for two days, but on June i, he ate a chipmunk,and that night a red squirrel. On June 2, I found him perched on the tool-house, and on the third he was in a large maple near-by, after which he wentback to the woods apparently as well as ever. He did not seem to be afraidof me after the first day or two of our acquaintance, but he never let me seehim eat, although my frequent visits proved to me that he ate as often in thedaytime as at night. A few days later, I found a dead young Barred Owl near the same yard,but could find no clew to the cause of its death. The Barred Owls are still with us, though I see them less often than I usedto, and the Screech Owls are beginning to be heard again in their old haunts.
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