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Bellevue, Blaine Co Idaho Jan. 1, 1936
The steel trap was unsprung and Magpies
had carried away the bait. Another mouse
trap set in a hollow under a high cliff was
missing, and both coyote and weasel tracks
had visited the spots. Set a no. 1 1/2 steel
trap at the entrance to a hole which showed
rabbit tracks entering but not leaving.
Crossed the ridge and descended the other
side toward Bellevue. Small rodent tracks were
numerous around Artemisia clumps near the
summit but were scarce above the valley
floor. I could find no rodent tracks around
the scattered Artemisia on the valley floor.
Flushed a Dark Hawk which was feeding on
a freshly killed domestic pigeon in the bottom
of a frozen irrigation ditch bordered by aspens
which parallels the base of the hills following
the contours of the hills about 25 feet above
the flat valley floor. The hawk flew carrying
the remains of the pigeon and lit about 200
feet ahead. When I approached it left the
carcass of the pigeon and flew past me
heading up the valley.
I discovered a flock of Bohemian Waxwings
perched in a tall aspen, which overlooked
a small apple orchard heavily laden with
frozen apples, in Bellevue. As I watched.