Field notes, v491
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May 16. Salmon Cr. Reservoir, Twin Falls Co. to 2 mi. E. Hagaman Gooding Co., Idaho Collected trapline at sunrise below the dam. Little luck was had. We climbed down in the canyon and looked for the Horned Owl's nest at the base of which Davis found the young (Chop Chop). We found the nest with difficulty but couldn't get to it. Many pellets & bones were below including many skus skeletons where they probably had fallen from the top of the canyon. At the bottom of the "V" shaped canyon in the willows I sawma a pair of Lead-colored Bush-tits feeding two young. They were very similar to the Coast Bush- tit & gave the same notes. A close view of a Warbling Vince had nearby. A Junco was heard here also, giving its song much the same as the Oregon Junco in Calif. Farther down the canyon could be heard the cries of Prairie-floors We went downstream away & unsuccessfully shot at a flying Horned Owl. This brought the falcons & a pair of Red-tailed Hawks "to their senses". They were all circling low over us and screaming! They stopped doing this after 35 minutes of it. The