Sat, Sept 9

Old Bill's

Fri, Sept 8

Jill and I tried trapping at the Y2 dump. 49 and 2 others came into feed, but 49 never left. He stayed much longer after the others left and didn't show too much fear even after we got out of the blind. Shut things down.

Thurs, Sept. 7

Jill and I went to trap at Y2. Set up and sat in the blind until there were 4 ravens in and a bunch of BBMA. A PRFA flew in to pick off a BBMA and all the birds flew off. Non of the ravens came back, so we called it off.

Wed, Sept 6

Got a download from 49, so I went to check things out. 2 centroids down at the Hereford ranch appeared to be where birs were picking up hoppers. Same bug stuff in the main valley of spring gulch. The main centriod at Y2 was at their dump site.
Jill and I went to check it out later when most birds would have been gone. Looked like a 1/2 way decent place to put a trap. there were 2 very old carcasses, but still were being used by at least 2 ravens and a bunch of BBMA.

Monday, Sept. 4

Thought I had a line on some bait, but no go. Had a meeting down at 3 Creeks.

Caught 4 birds in Spring Gulch, two were re-caps (lazy K and inverted 4 teal). Two new HY. Travis helped out.

Thurs, Aug. 31

I climbed up S.K. by myself and counted very few birds before the big flock came in. While the flock sreammed in pretty steady, it appeared that they came from more directions and for a longer time. My count was a total of 537 crows and just a few ravens. Probably an underestimate because some birds may have slipped in under my field of view.

Tues, Aug. 29

Jill and I climbed up Snow King to count the birds on the roost that I found the evening before. We checked all of the places I saw the birds roosting, and found very little evidence that a few hundred birds had been sleeping there. The biggest roosting place was an open, grassy grove with a bunch of old, tall dead pines.
We had the first crows and one come in at about 6:30. We had about 50 crows up until 7:30, when an est. 325-350 more came in from spring gulch. They all came in within minutes.