Field notes, v1701
Page 157
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Bellevue, Blaine Co. Idaho Dec. 29/1935 Bohemian Waxwings are still numerous. Several flocks were seen averaging 50 to 75 individuals. Mr. Wright remarked this morning that usually the waxwings arrived sometime in February. He could not explain their early arrival this year. Almost the entire food consists of the rotted, frozen apples left on the trees from the previous summer. Took a hike up Muldoon Canyon which heads off east from Wood River Canyon opposite Bellevue. Started at 100 P.M. hiked up the canyon, alternating between the road and the stream, for about 4 or 5 miles. Started back at 3:30 arrived in Bellevue about 5:00 P.M. Weather, unusually cold, clear. The first two miles of the canyon bottom is filled with broad fenced fields and small patches of Artemesia. In this area birds were completely absent, except for a single Song Sparrow, and occasional Magpies. Circling over one of the high peaks to the north of the canyon I noticed two hawks about the size of a Red Tailed Hawk, which were probably Ferruginous Rough Legged. A moment later another bird soared over the same peak near the two hawks and continued onward up the canyon. This raptor was noticeably larger, seeming almost