June 4, 1944 - Mtn. Home Reservoir - 1030 a.m. White-rumped Shrike's nest has 1 egg and 6 freshly-hatched young. The egg shells were laying on the ground, below the nest. The young are naked, blind (skin over eyes), no ear openings, no bill or mouth, skin still over them, and they are just developing. Body and head 1 1/2" long. Skin is pale orange. The male came within 3 feet of me, while I was at the nest. He didn't seem a bit scared. He acted as a decoy, and the female then slipped back into the nest! Marsh Hawks Lark Sparrow Pheasant Ravens Willow Goldfinch. Mourning Doves W. Crow Redwings Nighthawk Anderson Dam - 12 noon on S. fork of Boise R. Saw long tailed Chat and Lewis Woodpecker. Toll Gate, on road to Dixie, Idaho, 2 p.m. Saw several Mourning Doves and two male Bullock Orioles. They were brilliantly colored. I did not see any females. Located a last year's nest 10 feet above the ground on the inside of some draping limbs of an apple tree. The nest hangs cup-like and woven of grasses and long horse-hairs. It is 6"-7" long, and 3" in diameter. Cavity is 4" deep. Upper edges are woven on suspended from small limbs or twigs. The male bullock scolding call is similar to a Brewer Blkbd notes. Long-tailed Chats, and Chipping Sparrows. A W. Crow on the nest located over a small stream in an aspen. June 7, 1944 - With Scott Burke Mtn. Home AAB to Snake R. Canyon 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Horned Larks, and plenty of them. English Sparrows, Cliff Swallows (actually nesting under overhanging rock cliffs! Black-billed Magpies - young 1 or 2 weeks out of nest, approached very close to them) Lazuli Bunting. Raven Brewer Blkbd. Mourning Dove Western Kingbird Crow Nev. Redwings Rock Wren Redstart, male. Lark Sparrows Blue Heron Nighthawk or Poorwill, several of these sitting on horizontal limbs of trees around a deserted farmhouse. (white band on throat) Bullock Oriole, male, and a female carrying nesting material. Found start of new nest just 3 feet from an old nest. Valley Quail, several - Bough-winged or Bank Swallow (dark band across chest) June 9, 1944 - 5 p.m. SW 10 R- Ac brkn. Mtn. Home, area II. Visited the hawk nest, female was huddled over two of them, but the other four were just around her, and one was outside the nest. The largest is now 7 1/2" long and stands a good 5" high. It is still completely down-covered, but the wing quills are 2" long, and the tail quills 1 1/2" long. The head and legs are well developed. It even snapped its bill at me as I came close to it! The female scratched my scalp with her claws on one dive she made today! June 10, 1944 - Mtn. Home AAB, Idaho. During the past few evenings I have heard several nighthawks overhead. I heard one at 1230 a.m. during a heavy rain strom at the base. June 15, 1944 - Mtn. Home Area II 9 a.m. The two mourning doves have left the nest, but I saw them a little later when they flushed from the ground in the orchard. They seemed to be 2/3 to 2/3 grown, now. There were at least 8 or 9 nighthawks in one small area in Mtn. Home this a.m. Also saw one of these that seemed to be short and quite fat. It, too, had white throat band, and white wing bars. It gave no call notes. Same as one seen along Snake R. Western Kingbird Yellow Warbler Western Tanager