Field notes, v1701
Page 171
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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.