June 24, 1944 - Mtn. Home Reservoir 9 to 11 a.m. Bullock Oriole, Killdeer W. Kingbirds and nest. One parent on a telephone wire near the nest, and other adult came soon, thereafter. The second one lit at the edge of the nest and sat on it. The nest was located on a short-cross-arm of the telephone pole, below a transformer. It is at a height of 20 feet, and is made of grass stems and wool. I visited the shrike nest that had 6 young in it last week. They were all gone, and the nest lining was well-torn up. I saw the parent birds, nearby. but couldn't locate the young. Another mystery, like the hawks ????? July 2, 1944 - Middleton Idaho 6 p.m. Lazuli buntings giving strange trills and chirrs, and they acted as if they had a nest in a nearby locust tree. Payette, Idaho 7 p.m. Lewis Woodpecker Huntington, Oregon 8 p.m. Lewis Woodpecker July 3, 1944 - Blue Mtns near Meachum, Oregon 1 a.m. By full moonlight I saw 3 elk feeding only 25 feet from the hiway. Umatilla, Oregon 5-7 a.m. Eastern Kingbirds Killdeer C. Purple Finch Mourning Doves Blk-bill Magpie Western Kingsbirds Mallards Brew'r Blkbird Ring-billed Gulls Crow July 13, 1944 Wood river, above Ketchum near Easley Hot Springs Clear WL4 72/33 3 p.m. Chipping Sparrows - located pair and their nest in dense grass clump in a willow thicket along the river. There were 3 young in it. Red-naped Sapsuckers. Saw a pair of them. Male had red throat patch and crown. Fe- males had grayish throat patch and red crown. Both were mottled whitish gray on the back. They seemed slimmer and smaller than NW Red-breasted Sapsucker. Had black head, with 1/2 white lines on each side. I located a nest, containing young, in a quaking aspen. It was 7 feet above the ground, and had a southern exposure. The nest cavity was 1 1/2" in diameter and 3-4" deep, at which point it bend downward . There was another nest cavity, in the same tree, only 6 feet high. It also had a southerly exposure. This appeared to be 2 seasons old, because in another aspen, just 4 feet away, was another nest cavity, that was newer and probably was last years work. It faced NW and was 5 1/2 feet high. When the parent birds brought food, with me standing 5-6 feet away from the nest, they would fly to the hole in the tree opposite the nesting cavity, and go through actions of pretending to be feeding young, in the old hole. After that, they would casually fly or jump the distance to the nesting cavity. All this time the young were making noises of chirrs and chirps. I saw one adult feeding a stonefly and another time a buprestid beetle, about 1 1/2" long. Stanley Basin, Sawtooth Mtns., Idaho, July 14, 1944 - 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Blue Heron, being chased by Brewer Blackbirds. Western or Least Sandpiper securing gravel from the road. The gravel inthe road must be just the right texture, because there is plenty of grit, elsewhere, and much closer to the water than these birds/were. Thick-billed Redwing nesting in very small willow bush, about 2" above the middle of the little Salmon River. Tree-Swallows nesting on beam across top of garage door. There were 15 Cliff Swallow nests and 1 robin nest, in a row, under the eave of an abandoned building. The robin nest was o a small ledge under the eave. Western Bluebirds Robin White-crowned Sparrow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Mountain Bluebirds and young. Killdeer Marsh Hawk Olive-sided Flycatchers West. Tanager Juncos Chipping Sparrows Mourning Dove Mallards Yellow Warbler Rocky Mtn. Jay Pilisolated Warbler. N. Red-tail Hawk Pallid Horned Lark Swainson Hawk Barn Swallow had mud cup nest under cement bridge across beaver creek. Adult on the nest. Lewis Woodpecker at Hailey Idaho.