May 3, 1944 - Mtn. Home 9 a.m. clear and S4. Mourning Dove on barn yard wire Yellow Warbler in Maple Tree Twin Falls - Hagerman - Bliss Black-billed Magpies Redhead duck Western Grebe Mallard House Finch RS Flicker - observed pair of them on a Marsh Hawk Lesser Scaups telephone pole cross-bar. They bobbed Nevada Redwing Coots (nesting) their necks up and down and from side Willow Goldfinch Ruddy Ducks to side all the time uttering queer notes. May 4, 1944 - 530 p.m. Mt. Home, Idaho, Area #2, south of town. Flushed female from nest containing 6 eggs of Marsh Hawk. She stayed close and when I stooped to take picture, she set her wings and dove directly for me. May 6, 1944 - 4 p.m. Mtn. Home, Idaho - Flused female from the nest again, this time there were still 6 eggs. Evidently all that are to be laid. Each day, she stays longer on the nest, as I approach. The Robins nest still had 4 eggs in in. May 7, 1944 - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mtn. Home, Idaho, Reservoir. House Finch Nevada Redwings White-crwnd Sparrow Violet-green Swallows Brewer Blkbird Barn Swallow English Sparrow E. Sparrow Hawk M Rough-winged Swallow - getting drinks by dipping W. Meadowlarks American Raven into water of the reservoirs. Killdeer W. Crow Marsh Hawks Least Sandpipers - saw one pair of them. Also, Joan and I found a pair of Western Kingbirds near the edge of town. Seemed slightly smaller than a robin, about 8" long. Grayish back, white along side of tail base, yellow below and on chest, and head was a blue-gray or lavendar color. Bill broad and quite long, head profile seemed quite flat. Tail dark. Gave no call notes. No red patch could be seen on the head. Mourning doves. - several pairs Ring-billed Gulls , Mallards, Baldpates, Pintails, Coots White-rumped Shrike - Also I observed a very white-bellied shrike carrying something in its bill as it flew over us. I watched it, and then we hiked over to the approximate vicinity. One shrike, not so brilliant flew away, giving scolding notes. We walked directly toward one bush, and this first white one came out of it, and perched on top of it. We watched it for several minutes. Bill seemed all black and no barring on the chest. Presently she dipped low off the bush and flew low to another bush a 150 feet or so away, which later proved to contain an old nest. The bird didn't seem over 9" in length. We found a new nest. Nest is of twigs in a sagebrush with nest cup 3 1/2' above ground. Cup 4" in diameter and from 3 1/2-4" deep. It is lined with dry thistles (leaves). It is partly domed over by large sticks and twigs 1/4" or so. The old nest, mentioned above was in a sage with cup at 3' and about 150' from the new nest. The two nests are located within 25 feet of a dry creek bed. All this area is just scrub sagebrush, antelope and rabbit brush. None of it is over 4 feet high. Black-billed Magpies nests Nest A: Has 6 young just hatched. Body is about 1 1/2" long. Skin is pink and naked. Parent bird left without a squawk. Nest B: Still 0 eggs Nest C: 7 young now about 2 1/4" long, skin turning blackish. Bird left nest as we approached. Nest D: 4 eggs - 2 birds close by, on the ground. Nest E: 5 eggs - no sign of the birds Nest F: 0 eggs (1 egg here last week). The bird left the nest as we approached. Nest l: 6 young well along. Skin black. Tibia 2 3/4" long tarsus 2", feet well- developed. Body about 5" long 2 1/2"-3" deep and 2 1/2" wide. Head and bill 1 1/2" -2". Bill large and pale colored, much broader than long. Feathers