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Strong. 1921.
Krieger Valley,
133.
The Magnolia Warbler seem especially curious and almost
light of one arm or hat. Saw many Chidracles in the
poplars, Caught one spawning Molly Garden over by
the Swedes, the river greedingly supplying us with
Jay's meal to eat. Mr. S worth shot a Muskrat today,
Phoebe and a Say Choole, the latter being the first we have
seen here altho found North on the Stillins commonly.
The Chules were very musical tonight altho the young
owls like the young Red Tails have very shrill
and immature voices! The deep Hoo-o! hoo-o! of
the call being occasionally replaced by a shriller,
Horned Owls tu-who! Who-tu-who! Whether this
hooting
is due to the individual, or is a regular part of the
call I am not certain. We watched one Owl,
fairly close on the top of a Spruce, hooting and
as usual he ducked away low, threw his tail
high in the air like a Winter Wren, and got out
his call, without pumping as some of them do.
For so solemn and dignified a bird, such a
clumsious and absurd method of calling seems
uncongenius to say the least. Got a whig shot at
one but in the chock lost the bird, whether he
was badly hit I could not tell. Put up a small
pole with a no. 1 trap on it in the field today.
Weds. Aug. 29. Cloudy. Went on long hunt down the river
and into the talle below here. Saw practically