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birds were consequently rather quiet.

A Great Horned Owl hooted from a tree by the edge of the Half Moon but I did not look it up then for I was watching a mink which was working towards me. By the time I had started to look it up it had flown across the river where I could hear it for some time. It shifted its position continually and kept hooting at short intervals. 

Robins seemed rather alarmed to hear it.

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September 22, Monday.

This morning there were a number of Robins in Hoags yard. They were bathing by turns in pan about fifteen feet from where I was sitting. The first one to come puffed its breast feathers out as far as possible and jumped and splashed across. It did this several times and then went off. The next seemed afraid to go in and kept sidling along the edge. Another came up and jumped in. They cracked their bills sharply but