HORSESHOE LAKE, several miles west of ST. PAUL, MARION CO., OREGON February 9, 1950 4:15pm Weather: High clouds. Most of lake frozen over. Many more ducks were in this area than we saw I feel. They were scattered and consequently we saw only a few. The area around Horseho Lake contains fields of corn, which appears to be the principle food of the ducks in this area. Mallard - 300 in flooded bottom KK land on east side of lake. Baldpate - 300 at same location. Green-winged Teal - heard some in distance as well as more mallards, and baldpate. Mourning Dove - Most have seen 100. They were all along the highway between Salem and St. Paul. One flock of about 25 was perched along the crest of a barn roof like rock doves. COLUMBIA RIVER BOTTOMS, IN AREA AROUND PORTLAND COLUMBIA AIRPORT February 11, 1950 With McAllisters Weather: Most of ground still covered by snow here. Cloudy. We drove around in car over part of this area. Made no attempt to count the ducks, as they were flying about and we did not completely cover the area. The ducks were in small flocks in fields and flooded portions of fields. This area is one of truck farming and dairying. Rye, oats, common vetch, corn and cabbage are principle crops. A local dairy man and sportsman says the ducks feed heavily in cabbage, corn early in the fall. He complains of damage to by grazing to green shoots of rye. My own observations in the area showed heavy grazing by waterfowl to grass crops. Mallard - saw several hundred Pintail - saw several hundred Baldpate - Barn Owl - One dead at Columbia River Dairy Farm. We were told it has frozen and had been found dead in the barn. Seemed to be about two weeks old. Scaup - About 40 in a slough Canvasback - pair with the above. SAUVIES SAUVIES ISLAND, OSGC PUBLIC SHOOTING GROUND February 12, 1950 With McAllisters went out to see area. Spent only 1/2 hr. on it so didn't get much of any idea on how many ducks were present, although we saw many mallards, baldpate, pintails. Also 4 Canvasback and about 4 male and 1 female Amer. Merganser on the Columbia R. About 7 short-eared owls were in one field. Snow covers ground still. To supplement an abundance of natural food the game commission has planted