OWLS' NESTS AND OWL-TREES.
[To TES EDITOR Or TEX " SPECTAT0R:1 SIR,—Adverting to your agreeable article on this subject in the Spectator of March 20th, I may mention that a most effective way of encouraging owls is to fix barrels for them to nest in between the upper branches of old timber trees. A hole should be cut of the requisite size in the side of the barrel. If there are owls in the neighbourhood they will quickly avail themselves of this nesting accommodation and reward you with their melodious hooting. It may be accept- able intelligence to some of your readers to learn that the hooting of wood-owls (Strix alv,co) may be nightly heard in Kensington Gardens, where they appear to haunt some ancient trees near the Palace. They have recently been ex-
ceedingly vociferous after dark.—I am, Sir, &c., H. R.
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