John Hutchings received a permit from the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Biological Survey to do oological surveys. He and his family would collect eggs from various bird species in Utah from 1931 to 1941 and he recorded his observations including the date, species, location, number of eggs and other notes on little cards. These cards have been scanned and transcribed and are viewable and searchable below. These cards have information that gives insight into the species diversity in the area in the 1930’s and we can compare it to the species we have today.
Eunice Hutchings Climbing to an Eagle Nest
John Hutchings and his family would collect eggs from various bird species in Utah from 1931 to 1941 and recorded his observations including the date, species, location, number of eggs and other notes on little cards. These cards have been scanned and transcribed and are viewable and searchable below. These cards have information that gives insight into the species diversity in the area in the 1930’s and we can compare it to the species we have today.
Eunice Hutchings Climbing to an Eagle Nest
Explore the vast collection of Bird eggs collected by John Hutchings in the 1930’s and 40’s from around Utah Lake and the Cedar Valley. Learn about a wide variety of bird species found in Utah.
Common Name | Egg Photo Example | Scientific Name | Locality | Date | # of eggs | Identification | Incubation | Nest diameter | Nest Depth | Composed of | Location | Additional notes | Collected By |
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Pied Billed | Polilymlus podiceps | North East End of Strawberry Lake UT | Birds 6 sets of 3 | 8 sets of 4 all in state of time from blood to bone | 8 inches across | Dead rushers woven into a flealing | The day after the visit a huge wind destroyed all of the nests, hundreds of eggs were on the shallow lake bottom 10 to 14 inches of water | ||||||
Ancient Murrelet | Ancient Murrelet eggs | Synthliboramphus antiquus | Sanak Island Alaska | 6/6/1894 | 2 | Bird on nest | About one/fifth | Under rank matted grass a slight depression lined with fine grass, soft and dry | Sanak Island Alaska | Chase Littlejohn | |||
Night Hawk | Nighthawk eggs | Chordeiles minor | Pelican Point West shore of West Lake Utah co. Utah | 7/22/1933 | 6-2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | No nest | Running out into lake near where people walk everyday. Bird unafraid, only | ||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | Mouth of West Canyon Utah | 7/6/1935 | 7/2 | Bird on eggs | Fresh | No nest | Eggs laid on soft ground under soft cedar tree | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | Mouth of West Canyon Cedar Valley UT | 11/24/1936 | 8/2 | Bird flushed | No nest | Eggs on nest mold under cedar tree bird flushed | Lauret & Eunice | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | West Canyon North End Cedar Valley UT | 7/11/1931 | 1-2 | Bird on Nest | Heavy our egg hatched on the way home, the other about half incubated. | No nest, eggs among pebbles about sign of cedar | B.M. | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | About 1 mile up west canyon (to east, north end Cedar Valley) | 7/2/1932 | 2 | Bird on Nest | Heavy our light | No Nest | Always a thrill nest on eggs found on open ground among pebbles on sandy ridge a few days lush and cedar uar | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | North End of Cedar Valley UT Co. Utah mouth westvcanyon | 7/4/1933 | 3-2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | No attempt at nest | On pebbles | Found on Cedar covered point at east side of mouth of west canyon on ground in open sface among cedars and tall sage lush birds hand to flush from nest | ||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | North end of Cedar Valley utco UT mouth of west canyon | 7/4/1933 | 4-2 | Birds on nest | One Fresh, other slight | Eggs in dust | No nest | Found about 50 ft from set #3 of same date the unusual thing was the lack of pebbles or sand. eggs lay in fine dust at foot of large cedar, day hot, bird didn't like to leave the nest. | Eunice | |||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | East side of Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah at foot of lake | 7/6/1933 | 5-2 | bird on nest | heavy - one egg piped | no nest | eggs found in open space about 20 feet in cedar grove. | Eggs on ground among sand and gravel about the same color as eggs. Unusual thing was the lack of water, none within 10 miles in any direction. | ||||
Forster's Tern | Forster's Tern eggs | Sterna forsteri | near Tamington Davis county, Utah | 6/5/1937 | 2/2 | birds fussing around | Slight (brood) | Green and dry grasses | On top of muskrat den | R.G.B. | |||
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | North shore of Utah Lake near mouth of spring creek Lehi | 5/28/1934 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 7 feet | 0 | Bits of rush and water weeds, very few | Nest on ground on sand bar, very poorly constructed, many Avocet Nests in Locality | |||
Forester's Tern | Sterna forsteri | ||||||||||||
White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | island in Utah Lake | 5/7/1933 | 1/2 | Bird at nest | fresh | 12 inches | 1 | Sand Scooped up by bird | Nest on ground on north end of island. Bird Left at our arrival, gulls pounced upon eggs and would have soon succeeded in eating them. | |||
Blue Winged Teal | Spatula discors | Farmington Bay, Davis County, Utah | 5/16/1937 | 1/9 | bird on nest | fresh | grass, rushes and down from bird | R.G.B. | |||||
American Bittern | American Bittern eggs | Botaurus lentiginosus | Southwick Pasture, Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/1/1934 | 4/3 | Sure | Heavy | 8 Inches | 4 | dry rushes | in dry rushes near open water, nest on ground | ||
American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | North shore, Utah Lake (Tule) Powell Pasture | 5/20/1931 | 1/4 | Bird flushed from nest | heavy | 8 inches | 3 | Rushes (dry) | Nest in rushes 4 inches above water Loosely constructed | John Hutchings | ||
Great Blue Heron | Great Blue Heron eggs | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 5/5 | Sure | Usual | Rushes | Colony in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 6/5 | Sure | Usual | Rushes | Colony of 60 nests | R.G.B | ||||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 3/5 | birds | slight | usual | Rushes | in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 4/5 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Rushes | Colony in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah county, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 2/4 | Fresh | 2 feet platform | 3 | Rushes | in Rushes, nest 2 feet from water large colony | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | East Provo Bay, Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 5 | Birds Canny | 30 inches | depressed to hold eggs | sticks and weeds | Full of Rushes, Nest on 6 incehs of water | colony of approximately 40 birds | |||
Snowy Egret | Snowy Egret eggs | Egretta thula | Utah Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/19/1932 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 12 foot platform | 6 1/2 cup | rushes | in rushes with herons, nest 18 feet from water | ||
Black Crowned Night Hawk | Nycticorax nycticorax | Provo Bay, Utah Lake, Utah County, Utah | 5/7/1932 | 1/4 | Sure, Birds | Light | 14 inches | 2 inches | Rushes | Colony in Rushes, Nests near ground | R.G.B. | ||
Black Crowned Night Hawk | Nycticorax nycticorax | Provo Bay - Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 5 | Colony of about 100 birds | approximately 12 inches | depressed to hold eggs | over 12 inches of water | Near where creek empties | ||||
Virginia Rail | Virginia Rail eggs | Rallus limicola / Rallus virginaianus | Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1937 | 4-10 | Birds | blood and thickening | 5 1/2 inches across | 3 inches | grass | in marshy meadow on shore of Utah Lake | John Hutchings | |
Sora Rail | Sora Rail eggs | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 6/13 | Eggs and Bird | Fresh | 5-7 inches overall | well cupped | green grass | nest in meadow, a few feet from edge of pond, bird stayed on nest until I stopped to touch her, then only ran a few feet | John Hutchings | |
Sora Rail | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 5/15 | sure | 5 1/2 inches | well cupped | grass (green) | nest in the meadow, about 2 inches above water, well made with basket handle woven over the top, west of town. | John Hutchings | |||
Sora Rail | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 4/15 | Bird | Slight blood | 6 inches | well cupped | green grass | under fence in marsh near R.S.W Rail Road west of town nest well made with grass woven over top of nest forming a basket | John Hutchings | ||
Wilson's Phalarope | Wilson's Phalarope eggs | Phalaropus tricolor / Steganopus tricolor | old ice pond, Lehi, Utah | 6/11/1935 | 4/4 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 6 inches | 1 inch | dry grass | on ground near flowing well, well hidden by tall grass, one white egg shell rather soft. | ||
Wilsons Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor / Steganopus tricolor | Clark Pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/23/1933 | 2/4 | bird flushed | fresh | 6 inches overall | 1 inch | dry salt grass | nest on ground in marshy meadow | Laurel H. | ||
American Avocet | American Avocet eggs | Recurvirostra americana | West shore of Utah Lake, near Pelican Point | 5/30/1936 | 6/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Weeds and bits of rushes | in clump of grass 100 feet out in water, possibly 100 nests on shore in sand, visited site a few days later after high wind, all nests were gone. | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Island in Utah Lake | 5/28/1933 | 4/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5-6 inches | shallow | bits of Rush weed stalk, very little met used because of lack of growth | on ground near center of island away from gulls 10 nests in colony | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | East shore of Great Salt Lake near mouth Of Jordan River | 4/23/1933 | 3/4 | sure | fresh | Usual | bits of salt weeds and rushes | on ground around small bay of fresh water possibly 100 nests in colony | John Hutchings | |||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Shore of Utah Lake near pumps | 5/1/1932 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 5 inches | 1 inch | mud, and a few bits of tumble weeds | on ground, soft from water, 20 nests in colony | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Utah Lake, Provo, Utah | 5/7/1932 | 2/4 | birds | fresh | usual | on ground on point running into water 50 nests in group | John Hutchings | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah, South of town | 6/10/1920 | 3/4 | sure | fresh | usal | grass, well built for snipe | on tuft of grass 6 inches in diameter, surrounded by water | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah West of town | 5/20/1920 | 2/4 | fresh | 6 inches | 1 inch | dry salt grass | in meadow on ground near marsh | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 5/14/1933 | 13/3 | bird | first stage of incubation | usual | grass | nest in tall grass at edge of pond near Jacob's farm | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah near Jordan River | 5/12/1933 | 10/4 | bird on nest | fresh | usual | grass | nest near edge of marsh, hidden in tuft of grass, tot pasture | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 4/15/1935 | 4 one broken | sure | heavy, leg bones formed | usual | grass | in marsh pasture north of flour mill past town | earliest set in my collection | LLoyd Gunther | ||
Wilsons Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 4/26/1935 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | dry grass, set in center of Tusset of grass | 6 inches above water, near dank of old ice pond east of town. | Virgal Hutchings | |||
Wilson Jacksons Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Old Dairy west of Town, Lehi, Utah | 6/22/1936 | 25/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | 2 inches | dry salt grass | nest on bank of small stream only a few inches from water | |||
Wilsons Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/21/1933 | 4 | Bird on nest | fresh | Fine Grasses, very well constructed for snipe | north shore of Utah Lake, E. Davis Grass land. nest 20 feet from flowing well | J-I | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/10/1933 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | dry salt grass | in marsh pasture (S. Clark) | J-I | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/2/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Dry grass | Evidently a second set from #12-4 5-14-1933 nest not far from other site | J-I | ||||
Wilson Jacks Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/2/1933 | 4 | sure | fresh | salt grass | on dry salt grass ridge clark pasture | J-I | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 5/30/1933 | bird on nest | fresh | usual | very little material used, other green grass tramped down | This nest very unusual in construction and location, built between wheel tracks of unfrequently used road at the crossing of small stream near Evan's farm | J-I | ||||
Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/27/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Salt grass | in salt grass pasture So. of state highway at forks of road East of Lehi. Varney Pasture | J-I | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/23/1933 | 4 | Sure | Slight | Usual | Dry salt grass | This nest was perched upon one of a thousand grass covered pedestals made by cows wading in mud 14 inches from water level. HC. Evans Pasture West of town. 3 other nests found close eggs too heavy take. | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/14/1933 | 4 | Flushed Bird | fresh | Usual | drygrass | This most beautiful set was taken under a fence in tall wire grass 2ft from waterfilled borrow pit 20 ft from R.G.W.R.R. | J-I | |||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/14/1933 | 3 | Sure | Slight | Usual | Slight depression dry grass | This et was left several days after finding to make sure of a full set. In G. Jacobs pasture near pond. | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/12/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Slight Depression | grasses | On little rais in dry salt grass about 20ft from spring. Clark Pasture northwest of town. | J. H. | ||
Wilsons (Jack) Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | West of town. Lehi, UT | 6/20/1932 | 9/4 | Sure | Usual | Grasses | On ground hidden in grass Carters Pasture | |||||
Wilson (Jack) Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Near Jordan River, Lehi UT | 6/4/1932 | 8/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | On ground in tuft of grass above water in marsh | |||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | South of old ice pond Lehi, UT | 5/25/1932 | 6/4 | Sure | slight | 5' | 1/ | Salt grass | in grass around telephone pole in swamp | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT north of Mill pond | 5/29/1932 | 7/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5' | 1 1/2 | Dry Grass | On ground near spring | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Old Lake Resort. Lehi, UT | 5/20/1932 | 5/4 | Sure | Usual | Salt Grass | Near flowing well. On ground covered by dock leaf | |||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/15/1921 | 4/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5' | 1 1/2 | Dry Salt Grass | On ground near 'Blue spring' | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | 5/1/1920 | 1/4 | bird on nest | Heavy | Grass | In marsh 2 miles west of Lehi, UT. Nest in short grass about 20 ft from water. | John Hutchings | |||||
Wisons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Wallsburg, UT. | 6/7/1936 | 26/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | 1 1/2 inches | Grasses | In Marsh pasture west of highway. | |||
Wilson Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Near old river bridge. Lehi, UT. | 5/1/1935 | 24/4 | Sure | Slight | Usual | 2 | Dry grass | On ground in dry grass on bank of creek where it empties into river. | S. Adams | ||
Wilson Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Ut. | 6/1/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Grasses | Clark's pasture, Northwest of town. | H. | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT. | 5/12/1933 | 4 | bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | Grasses | First set of the season. Ice on part of marsh. West of Lehi in marsh near Jordan River, fox pasture. | John Hutchings | |||
Western Willet Egg Card | Western Willet eggs | Tringa semipalmata / Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus | Near river North of pumps Lehi, UT | 5/9/1933 | 2/4 | Sure flushed bird | Fresh | 5 1/2' | 2' | Hole in ground little lining | Nest under smallest rabbit brush on nole. Nest level with ground. Curlew nest 25ft away. | ||
Western Willet Egg Card | Tringa semipalmata / Catoptrophorus semipalmatus matus | Pelican Point, Utah Lake, Utah | 6/3/1936 | 4/4 | Sure, bird on nest | fresh | 5 inches | 2 inches | depression in ground | nest in center of alfalfa field completely hidden, bird undisturbed by our presence | |||
Spotted Sandpiper | Spotted Sandpiper eggs | Actitis macularius / Actitis macularia | Lehi, UT SW Clark | 6/23/1935 | 4/4 | Bird | Slight | 6 over all | 3/4 | Few dry weeds | Between rows of onions. Bird very tame scarcely leaving nest when cultivator destroyed it, However she never returned to claim the rebuilt nest. | ||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitis Macularia | Clark field, Lehi UT | 5/16/1936 | 6/4 | Bird on nest | Blood | 6' overall | 3/4 | grass | Nest in slight depression under cabbage plant. Birds 3rd attempt at nesting, each nest only a few feet from the other. Each destroyed by cultivation | JH | ||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitus Macularia | A.F. Canyon UT CoUt | 7/6/1933 | 3/4 | Bird | Light | 4 | Sand | In coarse sand on creek only a few ft. from water. Bird flushed when fisherman almost stepped on her | H.C.H. | |||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitis Macularia | Jordan River, Alred ranch Lehi,UT | 7/3/1935 | 5/4 | Bird flushed | 6' overall | 1' | Dry grass. Well made for sand piper | On ground in salt grass pasture. Only a few yards away from river. | ||||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularia | North shore of Utah Lake. Utah. | 1932-06-14 | 2/4 | Bird flushed. | Heavy - pipped. | 4 1/2 inch | 1 1/2 inch | Dry grass | On ground on sandy ditch bank under clump of grass. | |||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | ||||||||||||
Long Billed Curlew | Long Billed Curlew eggs | Numenius americanus | Pelican point UT lake UT. Co. Ut. | 5/26/1933 | 8/4 | Sure | Fresh | 8' well cupped | 4 | Very little nest. Mat. | Nest located on sand bar about 1 m. south of point. no protection at all, simply hole scooped in sand. Bird hesitated to leave nest. I stood a long time and watched her. | J.H. | |
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Provo, UT | 5/20/1934 | 9/4 | Sure | Slight | about 8' | 2' | Poorly constructed. A few bits of cow dung and a very little salt grass | West in center of old road. Bird did not move until car wheel almost struck her. East side of UT lake 1/2 M. So. of compromisemo | J. H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, UT | 5/5/1936 | 10/4 | Sure | Fresh. | 7 1/2' | 4' | salt grass. Very well made and lines | Nest 1/2 M. north of rimping plant Jordan river on top of nole. In dry grass. Wind was blowing very hard when the bird left the nest the wind threw her to the ground the eggs rolled from the nest, are cracked. | |||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Mosida, Utah County, Utah | 5/10/1936 | 12/4 | Sure | Heavy | 8 inches | 3 1/2 inches | salt grass | nest in open salt flat about 3 meters south-east of old Mosida Hotel site. At least 12 pair of nesting birds in locality | J.H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | West of Lehi, Utah | 4/20/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | F | 12 inches overall | 3 dry | Impression in earth at the side of a very small ball of brush in salt grass meadow, a few bits of dry grass was the only nesting material used. | ||||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | west of Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 4/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 9 inches across | 2 1/2 inches | depression in earth lined with dry grass, a few feathers from bird breast | near beams of house, bird unafraid | |||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | West of Salt Lake City, Utah | 4/23/1933 | 5/4, 6/4, and 7/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | 2 inches | Salt grass, very poorly constructed | West of air port, on gun club ground, Salt Lake City, Utah | R.H.Bee and I were on this trip | ||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/1/1932 | 3/4 | Sure | Fresh | 7 1/2 inches | 4 inches | Well cupped hole in ground lined with salt grass. | north shore of Utah Lake, LDr. Worlton's pasture, bird at nest | J.H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1933 | 4/4 | Sure | fresh | 8 inches | 3 1/2 inches | depression in soil, lined with salt grass, well made for a curlew | nest about 1/2 mile from pumps at head of Jordan River, located on top of little knoll 30 feet from river, short eared owl nest with 5 young 40th north and western Willet 65th east | J.H. | ||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Shore of Lake on ground, short salt grass | 5/1/1932 | 2/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 6 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression in dirt, lined with dry grass | South end of Utah Lake (near mosida Utah, Utah County) | John Hutchings | ||
Long billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Salt grass pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/27/1931 | 1/4 | Sure | Heavy | Usual | grass and horse dung | north shore of Utah Lake, in pasture South of Lehi, Utah County, Utah, near Lulirs | John Hutchings | |||
Killdeer | Killdeer eggs | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Island, Jordan River west of Lehi, Utah, grandpas | 5/19/1931 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 4 inches | 1 1/2 well cupped | nest in hole made by bird in salt grass pasture neatly lined with grass, several nests in close proximity. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Summit County | 6/4/1932 | 4 | bird leaving nest | good 1/2 | usual | depression with bits of grass | Boulder side hill 25 feet higher and 75 feet distant from lake | Leet | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lake shore west side of Utah Lake near Pelican Point. | 7/2/1936 | 12/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | unlined | hole in fine sand near water many nests with young Avocets nearby | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | grain field near Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 6/16/1936 | 11/4 | bird flushed | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | unlined | on ground in center of grain field | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Clark place, Lehi, Utah | 5/10/1936 | 10/4 | Sure | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | hole sparingly lined with a few bits of dry weeds | on ground in onion row | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Grandpa's cornfield, Lehi, Utah | 5/4/1935 | 9/4 | Bird on nest | Heavy | 4 inches | 1 inch | small clods | on ground between rows nest would have been destroyed by cultivation | T.C. | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | West of Lehi, Utah, salt grass pasture | 4/23/1934 | 8/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 1/2 inches | cow dung | nest most unusual, in top of dry cow dung, bird had used natural depression in top of dung. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah, old Murdock resort | 4/20/1934 | 7/4 | sure | fresh | pebbles | on ground near foot of large willow tree | |||||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Evans Pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1933 | 6/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | dry grass in hole | on ground between wheel tracks on old wagon road through salt grass pasture | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lehi, Utah, R.G.W. RR grade 3 feet from switch stand | 5/19/1933 | 5/4 | sure, bird at nest | slight | 4 inches | 1 inch | pebbles | on ground not more than 6 feet from end of tie dozens of trains pass daily | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Beet Field, Lehi, Utah, (Grandpa's) | 6/28/1931 | 4/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 1 inch | no nesting material used | on ground in row, no attempt made at lining perhaps frequent disturbing by cultivating had caused bird to neglect beautifying home surrowndings. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | shore of Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/25/1931 | 3/4 | sure | slight | 4 inches | 1 1/2 inches | hole in sand | on ground, sand bar former lake shore, nest lined with small pebbles and shells. | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lehi, Utah, west of town | 5/8/1931 | 1/4 | bird flushed | slight | 4 inches | 1 inch | small hole in sand on creek bank lined with small pebbles no other nest materials. | John Hutchings | |||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Old Provo and beach, Utah Lake, Provo, Utah | 4/30/1936 | 6/3 | Bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | sand | nest in sand among shells nest well cupped completely patched around rim with shell. | |||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Salt Lake County | 6/8/1933 | 1/3 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression in earth scooped by bird, lined with bits of shell | nest 12 inches from wheel track of road between two sloughs | R.G.Bee | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Salt Lake City, Black Slough area, North-west of Salt lake City | 5/13/1935 | 2/3 | bird leaving | heavy | 4 inches | 3/4 inch | slight depression with lime chips at rim | nest on shoulder of road which runs through dry slough | R.G.Bee | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Sandy beach east side of Utah Lake near compromise monument | 4/30/1936 | 5/3 | Bird Leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | slight depression in sand, well rimmed with shells | 1/2 mile from water | John Hutchings | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | West side of Utah Lake, near Pelican Point, Utah County, Utah | 4/25/1936 | 4/3 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression in sand rimmed with shells | on sandy bar outside of tamerac, 50 feet from water | John Hutchings | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Black Slough area north west of Salt Lake City | 5/13/1935 | 3/3 | bird leaving | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression with time bits at rim | on shoulder of road | ||||
Dusky Grouse | Dusky Grouse eggs | Dendragapus obscurus | Alpine, Utah in canyon east of power plant | 6/1/1939 | 7 | sure, bird on nest | eggs piped on chick out | about 9 inches | depression under small bush, beside power pipe line, didn't bother for fear bird would leave nest | John Hutchings | |||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | West Canyon, Utah County, Utah | 5/30/1936 | 1/7 | bird on nest | slight | 7 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression scratched in ground, well concealed under sagebrush and rotten log | near crest of hill, bird flushed from nest by sheep, never returned, eggs collected 3 days afterward cold and deserted. | John Hutchings | ||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | West Canyon, West of Lehi, Utah | 6/11/1939 | 7 hatching | bird flushed | about 8 1/2 inches | depression sparingly lined with dry grass and feathers from bird and leaves | under small sage on South slope of ridge near top | John Hutchings | ||||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | Alpine, Utah, ridge east of power plant | 6/4/1939 | 6 | birds | hatched | 8 1/2 inches | slight depression in dirt under sagebrush 6 feet off trail, few bits of dry grass and feathers from the bird | about 9000 feet elevation, eggs hatched and birds left nest an hour | John Hutchings | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Wallsburg Wasatch County, Utah | 6/7/1936 | 2/7 | Sure | Heavy | 8 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression scratched under sage brush, sheltered by large rock | Bird flushed by cows on 27th of May, Raining bird did not return, nest filled with water discoloring eggs on underside. Children visited nest often, bird wasn't seen again, eggs taken on June 7th. | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Strawberry valley, north end | 5/15/1938 | 6 | bird | 1t | 10 inches overall | 2 inch depression | grass and a few dry willow leaves | South side of Hay stack knoll, bird unusually tame | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Strawberry Valley | 5/10/1938 | 6 | Bird on nest | F | about 8 inches overall | 2 1/2 inches | little dry grass and a few feathers | side of knoll under sagebrush much like chicken nest | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West of Lake Strawberry | 5/30/1937 | 6 | bird on nest | bloody | 9 1/2 inches | grass and feathers | at the side of large rock on little knoll in full sun | ||||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West canyon (West of Lehi Utah) | 6/10/1940 | 7 | nest deserted | H | 9 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression near rotten log in small sagebrush | near top of ridge | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West of Lehi | 5/1/1939 | 7 | bird on nest | fresh | 10 inches | 2 inches | dry sage, leaves, and a few feathers from bird. | nest near top of ridge among tall sagebrush opening to the south overlooking canyon | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | 5/5/1939 | 8 | flushed bird | blood | 8 1/2 inches | 1/2 inch | slight depression in rocky ridge no nesting material used except a few feathers from bird nest at the feet of very small sage near horse trail | |||||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | 5/20/1939 | 8 | sure | slightly | 9 inches | 1/2 inch | depression with bits of grass at foot of sage | |||||
Mourning Dove | Mourning Dove eggs | Zenaida macroura / Chaemepelia passerina terrestris | Old dairy farm west of Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1933 | 1/3 | bird on nest | fresh | 5 inches overall | slight cup | nest on large horizontal limb of black willow tree, 5 feet from ground fist set of 3 dove eggs, I have even found bird very trustful and allowed me to touch her before she left the nest. | John Hutchings | ||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | near Utah Lake, at mouth of dry creek, Lehi, Utah | 8/4/1936 | 10/2 | bird on nest | one egg piped other heavy | 5 inches overall | slight depression in sand few weed stems around edge | best on sand bar which ran through meadow, unprotected from sun, exposed to full view of passersby | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull river north of Lehi, Utah | 7/20/1936 | 9/2 | bird leaving nest | heavy | 5 inches | slight depression on ground | about 4 feet off the side of alpine road, nest at foot of small sage, bird had not made much attempt at nest making, had scraped a few bits of dry cheatgrass together to form a circle around eggs. | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull River, North of Lehi | 7/12/1936 | 8/2 | bird on nest | fresh | 6 inches overall | coarse weed stalks | on top of stump which had grown up with suckers and dried handy enough nest material to hold eggs in place | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull River, north of Lehi, Utah | 6/23/1936 | 7-2 | bird on nest | one fresh and the other heavy | 5 1/2 inches overall | old black bird nest | bird had utilized an old black bird nest on the side of black willow stump, held in position by dead suckers | John Hutchings and Mal Urtson | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Beet dump, Lehi, Utah | 6/22/1936 | 6/2 | bird on nest | heavy | 5 1/2 inches overall | bits of weed stalks and very few bits of grass | on cross tie weed as support under beet dump | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | foothills north of town, Lehi, Utah | 6/18/1936 | 5-2 | bird on nest | one egg fresh, other heavy | usual | slight depression with very little nest material other than dry sage leaves which had fallen from bush. | on ground at foot of small sage bush, several nests in same locality | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | bro Jacobs pasture, Lehi, Utah | 6/16/1936 | 4/2 | bird on nest | heavy | usual | a few bits of milkweed fiber | on ground among gravel scraped from creek 4 feet from water, nest partly hidden by milkweed stacks | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Lehi, Utah | 5/24/1936 | 3/2 | bird on nest | flush | 5 inches overall | slightly cupped | very few grass and weed stalks | nest on grade of DRG WRR in pebbles and partly hidden by a bunch of lucem | John Hutchings | ||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Lehi, Utah 6th north 5th west | 5/22/1936 | 2-2 | bird on nest | flush | usual | grasses and twigs (very few) laid upon dead leaves which had accumulated at the face of a bunch of sucker limbs | on the side of a half dead poplar tree 5 feet from ground bird unafraid. | John Hutchings | |||
Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Benton bounty, Miss | 4/30/1934 | 2 | Sure | fresh | 18 inches | rotten wood | in old hollow oak tree eggs laid on bottom wood right on level with ground | ||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Marsh Hawk / Northern Herrier eggs | Circus hudsonius | Lehi, Utah, Robert's pasture Jordan River | 5/12/1933 | 1/4 | Sure, Bird on nest | Fresh | 24 inches outer, 14 inches cup | 4 inches cup, 10 inches nest | base of tumbleweeds, rushes lined with soft rushed, very well made | nest on old rushes, has been in this locality for years, about 100 feet from river | John Hutchings | |
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Sugar Factory, Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1936 | 3 | Bird Flushed | slight | 16 inches across | almost flat | on ground in tall dry grass | near edge of straw that runs from mitt pond | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | south-east of Lehi, Utah | 6/30/1938 | 5 | bird flushed | bone forming | 24 inches | on top of matted rushes flattened by bird sitting on them, two muskrat skeletons on mat near nest. | |||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | west of Lehi, Utah | 5/12/1938 | 5 | bird flushed | blood | 14 inches across | almost flat | on ground in meadow, fine horse manure, used as nesting material, well hid by dry meadow grass. | allred's ranch on Jordan River | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Saratoga, Utah | 6/29/1939 | 3 | Bird flushed | H | 2 feet slight cup | 14 inches | dry rushes tramped down. platform about 3 feet in diameter | on lake shore east of saratoga spring | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Saratoga Spring, Lake shore | 5/4/1940 | 5 | bird in air | slight | 20 inches across | 2 inches | nest on pile of wind piled tumbleweeds a few sticks of sagebrush were used in outlining nest. few soft grass were also used for lining nest, best marsh hawk nest I have found. | ||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Lehi, Utah RObert's pasture Jordan River | 5/22/1934 | 2/6 | birds at nest | heavy | 24 inches | flat | rebuilt rushes and grass | same nest as set 1/4 5-12-1933 was taken from | John Hutchings | ||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | fields west of Lehi Utah County, Utah | 6/20/1934 | 5 | bird flushed | bone forming | 24 inches across | almost flat | hardly enough material, nest ground just the matted dry grass used for nest, old tumbleweeds around to hide it. otherwise open country | short eared owls nests in same pasture. | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | West of Lehi, Utah | 6/7/1934 | 5 | bird on nest | fresh | 24 inches across | flat | dry rushes and tumble weeds two sticks of sagebrush. | nest laid on matted rushes in swamp 18 inches above water thumman's swamp | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | north shore, Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/25/1935 | 5 | bird flushed | slight | 24 inches | slight cup 8 1/2 inches | weeds and matted rushes | on ground at the edge of lake hid by dry rushes and some grass, duck nest 22 feet away in grass | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Shore of Utah Lake, South of Lehi, Utah | 5/3/1936 | 4 | bird flushed | F | 18 inches | almost flat | a few pieces of willow and tumble weed laid on solid foundation of matted rushes. rushes (many years growth) were so thick they held me up | John Hutchings | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | West of Lehi, Utah South of river bridge | 5/25/1935 | 6 | bird flushed | blood | 24 inches across | almost flat | matted rushes, a few small sticks of rabbit brush and feathers from bird | nest 2 feet from ground (water) and dry matted rushes | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Sugar Factory, Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1936 | 3 | Bird Flushed | slight | 16 inches across | almost flat | on ground in tall dry grass | near edge of straw that runs from mitt pond | |||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Sharp Shinned Hawk eggs | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | 2 miles north of lehi, near creek | 6/20/1938 | 4 young birds | young in nest | fully feathered left nest when disturbed | sticks and rootlets had from Red-Tail nest year before, but only a few of the original nest remained | 30 feet up in Cottonwood tree on horizontal branch thick grove of them all around | John Hutchings | |||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | Alpine canyon, Utah county | 5/29/1937 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | 8 inhces | 1 inch | small sticks, a little bark | nest about 10 feet up in corner on horizontal limb 6 feet out from trunk. tree near pipe line of Ut. Power and light where walking past almost everyday | collected by Mr. Peterson at power plant | ||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | in mouth of small canyon running out of provo canyon above vivian park | 6/24/1940 | 2 | bird | very heavy | 8 inches across | 1 cup | small sicks and a little bark , and dry leaves | on horizontal limb of conifer 15 feet up. 6 feet out from trunk. could be seen plainly from below. | |||
Coopers Hawk | Cooper's Hawk eggs | Accipiter cooperii | Tick Ville, Utah county, Utah | 6/25/1932 | 2/4 | bird at nest | fresh | about 14 inches | almost flat | sticks | nest on top of magpie nest very little done by hawk in oak brush near spring | John Hutchings | |
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Cedar Valley, Utah county, Utah | 5/18/1931 | 1/6 | killed bird as she left nest | eyes forward | tumble weeds | nest located in a large pile of tumbleweeds that the wind had blown together, best and eggs exposed to the sun and weather | |||||
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Tick Ville Utah county, Utah | 5/27/1933 | 3/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | shallow saucer shape | sticks old magpie nest, very poor nest | in patch of oak brush 12 feet from ground near spring same nest as set #2/4 6-25-1932 was taken | John Hutchings | ||
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/18/1931 | 1/6 | shot bird at nest | fresh | 24 inches | 3 inches | tumble weeds | nest made on great pile of tumbleweeds, blown up by wind, no lining other than weeds | G.J. | ||
Goshawk | Goshawk eggs | Accipiter gentilis | AF Canyon north of Allamont camp | 6/10/1938 | 2 young birds | birds | usual | Sticks and bark, many feathers around edges of nest, bones of small birds perhaps thushes | John Hutchings | ||||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Bear Role off above mutual Dell AF canyon Ut. County | 5/17/1939 | 3 | bird on nest | blood streabs | 24 inches | 3 inches | sticks lined with stupes of bark, bark of quaking aspen | in quaking aspen grove nest in large tall tree, near top, overlooking canyon 5 old nests were in same grove birds very vicious, eggs couldn't be told from those of Red Tail | |||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Gramet flat near creek at canyon Utah county, Utah | 5/26/1939 | 3 | bird on nest | Fresh | 26 inches overall | 4 inches | sticks lined with bark stripe | nest 34 feet up in quaking aspen tree, without limbs up to nest. birds attacked while climbing tree driven away with flipers, tree in quaking aspen grove on ridge south of flat | John Hutchings | ||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Deer Creek, American Fork Canyon | 5/17/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | 26 inches across | 4 inches | sticks, bark stripe | nest in aspen grove just over ridge from one taken last year, nest in tall smoth tree 28 feet up. birds very vicious, attacking time after time driven away with flippers | John Hutchings | ||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Red-Tailed Hawk eggs | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Lake Mountain, east side of Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 3/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | sticks, sage brush and rat dung. | nest in high rugged ledge on west slope of Lake Mountain watched bird come and leave nest very beautiful have visited the nest last year. 32 but set being incomplete did not take them | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north west end of Lake Mountain | 4/26/1937 | 3F | bird on nest | F | nest in old ravine west the hawks had done little to restore the old nest neither in adding material or in beautifying the cup was almost flat | in notch of cliff 30 feet high | John Hutchings | ||||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Lake Mountain Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 2/3 | sure | fresh | in crevice in cliff, rat manure and a few rabbit bones | nest on ledge in cliff about 50 feet up, two eggs in the nest one on narrow shelf about two feet below nest (bleached) | |||||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north of Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1936 | 3 | bird | H | 26 inches | 3 inches | sticks lined with fine twigs and bark stups | in tall cottonwood tree in creek bottom north of Lehi Utah, 25 feet from ground | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | South end of Cedar Valley Utah County, Utah | 4/30/1933 | 5/2 | sure | heavy | 24 inches | 5 inches | sticks of cedar and sage | in cedar tree 9 feet from ground, old nest I thing the nest was not build by Red Tail | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Tick Ville, Utah County, Utah | 4/26/1931 | 1/3 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | sticks no lining | nest on top of old magpie nest, in oak brush 15 feet from ground bird very noisy, darting very close | John Hutchings | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north west end of Cedar valley (Cedar Grove) | 4/21/1933 | 4/2 | bird on nest | heavy | old rough leg nest | old nest flattened out | sticks and bark and a dozen cacti pads and rabbit bones | I took set of rough leg from nest last year, Red-Tail had done little or no work on nest, in dead cedar tree east side of road Cedar Grove | H.C.H. | ||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Goshen Pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/2/1933 | 6/3 | sure | slight | 24 inches | 4 inches | sticks and bark stips | cedar tree 12 feet from ground very good nest for Red-Tail | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | South end of Utah valley, near Allerla Utah County, Utah | 5/16/1932 | 1/5 | sure | 42 inches | 5 inches | large sticks twigs bits of cedar bark | the nest was in the top of a cedar tree about 8 feet from the ground had been rebuilt for several years until it would hold a thousand pounds and covered the entire top of the tree | ||||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | west slope of Lake Mountain, Cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1933 | 3-4 | bird leaving nest | light blood | 2 1/2 feet across | 4 1/2 inches | sticks some rather large cedar twigs bark and larger than common, appeared to have been rebuilt several times | top of large white cedar about 15 feet up, south slope of small canyon. | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | Rabbit Valley 7 mile pass, Utah County, Utah | 5/25/1933 | 3 | bird on nest | F | 3 1/2 feet overall | 2 1/2 inches | sticks, sage, lined with cedar bark | nest in Cedar tree 10 feet from ground, bird unafraid, flew to a tree about 100 feet away and watched, male bird circled in air | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | in the pass between Utah valley and Cedar valley west of Saratoga | 5/3/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | bone forming | 3 1/2 feet | 2 3/4 inches | sticks, lined with tumble weed and strips of bark several bits of worn out rope and pieces of egg cartons picked up from bear by sheep camp site. | In Cedar tree on edge of wash. | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Ferruginous Rough Leg / Ferruginous Hawk eggs | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | South west end of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1933 | 1-4 | birds | fresh | 3 feet across | 4 inches | sticks, cedar bark, and twigs a few bones | nest in top of a low bushy cedar, plainly seen for a mile distance, bird after leaving nest circled around many times crying male came from valley and both circled several times | ||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | north end of rush valley Toole County, Utah | 4/21/1933 | 3/4 beautifully marked | birds leaving nest | slightly | usually | sticks, brush, weeds and bark | nest in top of cedar tree at outer edge of grove, several nests in locality, three inhabited (eggs very unusual) | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/9/1933 | 2/4 | bird on nest | heavy | about 4 feet | 2 feet | sticks and tumble weeds lined with bark | nest in small cedar on south slope of hill at mouth of small canyon on Lake Mountain | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley west slope of Lake Mountain | 4/15/1933 | 3/5 | birds at nest | heavy | 3 feet 9 inches | 5 inches | sticks lined with bark and part of comic sheet from Salt Lake Tribune | In dead cedar at foot of mountain about 3 miles south of Cedar grove | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | 7 mile pass Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1933 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 4 feet | 20 inches | sticks - strips of cedar bark | nest in cedar tree, covering entire top. Both birds at nest very excited. one of the birds dark brown no white visible, other true marking of Ferruginous. 9 feet from ground | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | south end of Cedar Valley, goshen pass | 4/17/1932 | 2/5 | bird at nest | slight | 5 feet outside 12 1/2 inches inside | 5 inches | large sticks of Cedar and sage closely woven and rather firm, lined with bark and a few feathers from the bird. | bird very excited and circled close to me, giving wonderful opportunity to study | John Hutchings | ||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah county, Utah | 4/20/1934 | 1/3 | sure | 4 feet | 5 inches | sticks, bark, and tumble weeds | in cedar tree, 8 feet from ground | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Chimney rock pass, Utah County, Utah | 3/3/1934 | 5/5 | bird on nest | blood streaks | 4 feet 6 inches | 5 inches | entirely sage brush, lined with strips of cedar bark. Nest very neatly made. Round as if bade by man. Bird sat in nearby tree and watched. | nest covered entire top of small compact cedar tree, top of nest only 6 feet from ground, could see the eggs | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/8/1934 | 6/5 | bird on nest | slight | 5 feet | 18 inches | cedar sticks, sage brush, and tumbleweeds. Lined with strips of bark and old paper | nest in top of small cedar tree, isolated, near margin of foot hill 8 feet from ground, nest had been rebuilt many times. Tree almost full of sticks and nest material. great pile under tree. | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | west side of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/30/1936 | 3 | bird | Heavy | 2 feet 6 inches | 4 inches | sticks some of which were incredibly large. a great pile of sticks under tree (cedar) looked as though the birds had the misfortune of losing their first nest and had reconstructed it. the three eggs were heavy, almost ready to hatch | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | south end of Cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/26/1936 | 2/3 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 feet | 6 inches | the usual sticks, cedar sticks and sage brush | 12 feet from ground | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | in lone tree (cedar) west of Goshen pass, cedar valley | 4/8/1936 | 3 | bird on nest | Heavy | 3 feet 6 inches | 12 inches | sage brush and greasewood, very bulky lined with fine brush and a little bark pulled from tree which held the nest | John Hutchings | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | on flat south of cedar fort, Utah County, Utah | 4/12/1935 | 3 | bird on nest | Heavy | outside 42 inches x 16 inches | 12 x 5 inch cup | sticks, sage brush, and wire from bailed hay. cup - sticks of cedar bark, bits of news paper. three lobes of cacti were among the sticks also a quantity of horse dung. Other items had been carried there by pack rats which were inhabiting bottom part of nest. | John Hutchings | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 1/15/1935 | 1/2 | bird on nest | fresh | 3 feet | 2 feet | sticks and tumble weeds, very well lined with bark | in small cedar 7 feet from ground, tree south of Cedar Fort, Utah, interesting dare, season very warm since xmas | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | west side of chimney rock pass, Utah and Cedar valley | 4/9/1939 | 4 | birds at nest | F | 4 feet x 18 inches | cup 11 inches x 4 inches | sticks and hay (carried from nearby sheep camp) cup lined cedar bark and part of old sheep hide, and a number of small dry bones. Three were old nests in nearly every cedar in this locality, 12 in all | John Hutchings | |||
Golden Eagle | Golden Eagle eggs | Aquila chrysaetos | Losser gulch north east side of Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1940 | 4-2 | sure | bone forming | 5 feet across 7 feet deep | cup 13 1/2 inches x 4 inches | sticks of pine, cedar, and quaking aspen, lined with barks and fine fir bows | in tall thin fir tree 40 feet up tree, swaying badly when climbed, nest rebuilt over old one | John Hutchings | |
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side of five mile pass, cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1940 | 5-1 | sure | heavy | 4 feet 6 inches x 3 feet | cup 13 1/2 inches x 5 inches | sticks, sage brush, cedar bark and wood | about halfway up high 100 foot ledge, very hard to grab on hoop as ledge overhung ravine and great horned owl in same ledge within 100 feet. | |||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side of 5 mile pass Cedar Valley Utah County | 4/16/1941 | 1 | sure | Heavy | 4 feet 6 inches x 3 inches | cup 13 1/2 inches x 5 inches | same nest as set 5 was taken from last year | John Hutchings | |||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side Goshen pass between Utah and Cedar Valley | 4/9/1939 | 3/2 | sure | bone forming | 6 feet across 26 inches deep | 15 inches deep cup x 6 inches deep | sticks, mostly of sage brush a quantity of bailing wire and two Salt Lake Tribune news papers, the latter articles carried from the site of an old sheep camp half mile away | near tucked away notch in ledge | John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Located by Jas Bee | 4/4/1937 | sure | 8 feet by 8 feet | 5 feet | built of sticks cup composed of Cedar Bark and twigs of fir inside measuring 14 inches across 5 inches deep, rim was 8 inches wide, built up from the stick platforms, snow covered nest up to the rim platform, on landing, had been used many years. snow from 3 to 5 feet deep | after an extensive hunt by Mr. R.G. Bee, James, Eunice, and myself, three old sites visited before finally found. nest in large fir tree about 200 yards below the last years nest (almost at the bottom of gulch) nest was mammoth affair. | John Hutchings | ||||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Lossee gulch, north east side of Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 4/4/1937 | 2/2 | bird at nest | one half, bone forming | 8 feet across 5 feet deep | cup 14 inches across by 5 inches deep | sticks (base) lined cedar bark and sage of fir. Snow covered nest up to the 8 inches win | in large fir tree 30 feet from ground, on north slope of Mountain near bottom of ravine | R.G. Bee, James, Eunice, and John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | end of box elder Canyon, east of alpine Utah County | 4/23/1933 | 1/2 | birds | blood streaks | 8 feet across 4 feet deep | 16 inch cup and 5 inches deep | large sticks, cup fine soft barks, many sprays of fresh evergreen 'fir' around outside of nest, a few feathers from the bird in nest | nest in large fir tree 30 feet up | John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | 4/14/1940 | 1 | Bird on nest | About half | nest 3 ft by 2 1/2 ft | deep cup 4 in | built of sticks, lined with cedar bark. Usual, pine bows around nest. | In cliff, directly under raven nest. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley - north west of Lake Mountain | 4/10/1932 | 2/5 | bird at nest | slight | crevice in cliff | eggs lain on ground | rat dung, two or three pieces of sagebrush in crevice but not part of nest | in open crevice in cliff 30 feet high, first cliff on north end and west side of Lake Mountain | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Long Canyon, Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County | 6/15/1934 | 7/5 | bird at nest | slight | crevice causing protected shelf in cliff | large enough for man to sit in | no nesting material used except for sand which had sifted in front of nest or eggs in back of shelf close to wall. Red-Tail's nest not more than 50 feet away in same cliff | John Hutchings | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Mountain, north of Topliff hill, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 6 | bird | F | 7 inches x 7 inches | 1 inch | depression scratched in rat dung, a few rabbit bones on rim of nest, likely carved in by rats before falcon came. | ledge flat over extending out from bottom crevice in ledge eggs could be seen from above, 120 feet | Harold H. | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 3/5 | sure | fresh | 10 inches | 1 inch | very little, fine dirt in bottom of pot hole | in pothole near top of Chimney rock, north side | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | West side of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/9/1933 | 4/5 | (Sure) Bird on nest | fresh | very little done by falcons, as the nest had been taken from a pan of ravens who were still contesting the site, although they were building another nest about 200 yards along the same cliff. | In cliff about 30 feet from bottom and 10 from the top | John Hutchings and R.G. Bee | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah, Lake Mountain West side | 4/7/1935 | 8/5 | sure | fresh | crevice in cliff | slight cup 1 inch | rat dung | In cliff 20 ft from top nest well to the back of the hole | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, West side of mountain | 4/20/1935 | 9/5 | Both birds at nest | slight | Natural hole in rock | cup 1 1/2 inch rat dung | rat dung | nest in cliff at mouth of small canyon, about 1/2 way down Lake Mountain | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Goshen Pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/12/1936 | 10/5 | Sure both birds | fresh | 14 inches pot hole | eggs on ground | sand | nest in bubble like hole in ledge of pummie stone, 20 feet high, north side of pass 1/2 mile from road. | John Hutchings | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | East side of Lake Mountain. End of short canyon running west of cotton woods. | 4/21/1936 | 6 | bird | one egg light color with no yolk, very little smaller than nest | 8 inches x 8 inches | 3 inches | sticks and wool - apparently falcon had taken nest from ravens which were still in locality and building nest about 100 feet north in same ledge, birds were very quarrelsome and fought in the air the ravens were masters when two to one flushed, the ravens were soon driven away. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | North end of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/2/1936 | 11/4 | sure | heavy | same nest as set 2/5 4-10-1932 | ||||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | West side of Lake Mountain, East of Fairfield, Utah | 4/14/1939 | 6 F | Bird | F | 8 inches x 8 inches | 1 inch | Rat dung eggs lay on rock | In ledge at mouth of small canyon, South front, in full sunlight most of day. | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | north end of Mountain, south side of 5 mile pass, Cedar Valley, Utah County | 4/16/1941 | bird on nest and in air | slight | no nest material | 1/2 inch | nest was slight depression in fine rat dung in notch of cliff. | North face of cliff but, well protected by over hanging rock. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock Pass, north side of pass. Utah County, Utah | 6/15/1933 | 4/6 first set of 6 | sure bird at nest | fresh | crevice in high cliff | no cup | old flattened crow nest, falcon had done little or no work on nest, second set of eggs taken from this nest this year, set of 5 taken 4-4-1933 | in cliff north side of pass about 1 mile off road, cliff about 75 feet | John Hutchings, HC. Eunice Hutchings and GB. | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah west side of Lake Mountain | 5/21/1934 | 5/5 | sure | slight | crevice in cliff | 1 inch | Saucer scraped in rat dun, a few pellets and gnawed sheep bones. | nest in entrance to small cave about halfway up 60 foot cliff. Centuries of accumulated rat dung | John Hutchings | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock pass, Utah County, north side of pass | 4/2/1934 | 6/5 | sure, bird stayed on nest until I almost reached the nest | one half | no cup | Old crows nest | same nest as set 4, 6-15-1933 was taken from, nest the same as last year except accumulation of rabbit bones. Rats had winter home under nest | ||||
Peregrine Falcon / Duck Hawk | Peregrine Falcon / Duck Hawk eggs | Falco peregrinus anatum | Pelican Point - Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 5/20/1935 | 1/4 on broken | birds at nest | fresh | 7 inches | few sticks, egg on ground | in low ledge above old lime rock quarry, birds said to have been there for years - Mr. Cedarstrom | bird taken later and is now in my collection | Cedarstrom boy | |
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk eggs | Falco sparverius | Dry Creek, north of town, Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1934 | 10/5 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 14 inches | woodpecker hole | dead poplar tree, ready to fall over, 25 feet up | John Hutchings and H.C.H. | |
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah west of town | 6/5/1933 | 8/4 | sure | fresh | 5 inches | 8 inches | chips | same nest as set 7/5 5-16-1933 this is 4 sets of eggs taken from this nest this year, woodpecker 7 blue bird 5 SH 5 and SH 4 | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah 3rd ward | 5/9/1936 | 12/4 | sure | fresh | 4 inches | 10 inches | woodpecker nest | in black willow stump 5 feet from ground, G. Barnes Pasture | John Hutchings and G.J. | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah home | 7/20/1936 | 13/3 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 14 inches | woodpecker hole | half dead cottonwood 20 feet from ground, 3rd time birds have been robbed by boys this year | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, Dry Creek | 7/20/1936 | 14/4 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 12 inches | chips in wood pecker hole | dead poplar tree 25 feet up | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/26/1933 | 11/5 | sure bird on nest | heavy | old magpie nest | sticks | nest in old magpie nest in haw tree about 8 feet from ground, eggs almost white | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah | 6/3/1933 | 12/5 | fresh | wood pecker nest | in old cottonwood tree 10 feet from ground | ||||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/29/1932 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 16 inches | at Evan's farm west of Lehi, nest in woodpecker hole in black willow tree about 20 feet from ground | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah Old Rodeo Grounds west of town | 5/29/1932 | 5/5 | sure | heavy | 4 1/2 inches | 16 inches | chips | in old woodpecker nest in black willow tree 20 feet up | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, Dry Creek, north of town | 5/24/1931 | 3/5 | sure | heavy | 4 1/2 inches | 12 inches | chips | in deserted woodpecker hole 15 feet up cottonwood tree | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, North of town, Dry Creek | 5/24/1931 | 2/5 | bird at nest | heavy | 4 1/2 inch opening | 12 inches | fine rotten chips, several feathers | old cottonwood tree 14 feet up | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/17/1931 | 1/5 | bird on nest | fresh | deserted wood pecker nest | 14 inches | fine chips in bottom | first sparrowhawk of the season, two miles north of Lehi, up Dry Creek, nest in cottonwood tree almost ready to fall down, pulled bird out of nest | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah 1 mile north of town 'creek' | 5/17/1931 | 1/5 | bird in nest | fresh | 5 inches | 14 inches | fine chips in bottom | old woodpecker hole in cottonwood tree 20 feet up, tree very tottery, bird taken from nest | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/4/1932 | 5/4 | caught bird in nest | fresh | 10 inches | nest in black willow tree west of Lehi, 5 feet from ground, third set of eggs taken from same hole this year, one blue bird set 5 one Sparrow Hawk set of 5 and this one | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/4/1932 | 6/5 | bird leaving nest | fresh | old magpie nest | sticks | nest in tall willow tree 30 feet up, eggs laid on top of old magpie nest, extra large eggs | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/15/1933 | 8/4 | sure | fresh | old wood pecker nest | up dry creek north of Lehi, in old cottonwood tree | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/12/1932 | 7/5 | sure | fresh | hole in bark | 24 inches | nest in hole in Jordan river bank at Horseshoe bend - birds nest in same hole year after year | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah | 5/16/1933 | 10/5 | sure | nest in black willow tree, in natural crevice caused by tree splitting alterson farm west of town | |||||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, UT Co., Utah | 5/16/1933 | 9/5 | sure | Wood Pecker nest | Nest in black willow 12 ft up. Woodpeckers and hawks contrasting the heading sight infield west of town. | ||||||
Long Ear Owl | Long Eared Owl eggs | Asio otus | Cedar Valley, UT. (Cedar Grove) | 4/10/1933 | 2/5 | Sure. Bird at nest. | Fresh | 2 ft across | slight cup | Sticks and bark. old hawk nest. | Nest in top of Cedar in center of grove , 10 ft from ground. Owl has done little or no work on nest. Rats had used under part of nest for their home. | Eunice | |
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Great Horned Owl eggs | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. 7 mile pass | 3/24/1933 | 4/2 | Sure | Fresh | 12 in across flattened nest | Last year raven nest sticks and wool. | Nest in natural crevice in low ledge, South side of road near old Dovton well, 7 mile pass. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Northwest end of Lake Mt. Cedar valley, Utah. | 3/19/1933 | 1/2 | Bird on nest | About one week along | In ledge about 100 ft high, I took a set of raven eggs from same nest, 4/17/1932. Very hard to get to being indented on the face of cliff, George Born assisted me by letting me over cliff on roap (old fashioned word for rope). | ||||||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. Fire clay bed. 7 miles, west of town. | 4/7/1932 | 1/3 | Bird on nest | Heavy | Hole in wall of cut. | 2 inch cup | cup scraped out in clay. No nest material. | Nest was made in hole left after blast, has been used 5 years in succession. Birds took little or no notice of men at work, 30 ft below their nest. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Chimney Rock Pass, Utah. | 4/9/1933 | 5/3 | Sure | Heavy | Natural crevice in rock | Rat dung and pellets | Nest in same site falcons used year before (Chimney Rock), 30 ft up on north side. Ravens contest site. | J.H. | |||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. | 3/19/1933 | 2/2 | Sure, both birds. | Slight | Hole in bank | Slight depression | No nest material. Pellets in nest. | Nest located in natural crevice in bank of R.G.W. RailRoad cut at Jordan Narrows, 15 ft up from tracks. Judging from number of pellets in and around nest, site had been used as roost all winter. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Cedar Valley, UT. | 3/22/1933 | 3/3 | Sure. Bird flushed. | Heavy | Shallow hole in cliff | Slight depression | Rat dung and a few pellets. | In cliff 30 ft up (north end of Lake Mt.) snow on ground and in crevice to within a few inches of nest. | J.H. | ||
Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia / Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea | 4/30/1936 | 3/6 | Bird | Fresh | 4 ft burrow | Horse manure | Abandoned badger hole | J.H. | ||||
Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia / Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea | Lehi, UT. West of town near river bridge. | 5/1/1934 | 1/9 | Birds at nest | Several stages | 10 inch pot hole at end of burrow | Lined with horse dung | Hole 10 ft long 2 ft deep 'old badger hole' in clay bank near river. | oh. and J.H. | |||
California or Western Cuckoo | California Cuckoo eggs | Coccyzus americanus occidentalis | Lehi, UT. | 6/28/1936 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | all stages | 7 in across | Reconstructed Robin nest | In half dead poplar tree 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black-chinned Hummingbird | Archilochus alexandri | Near mouth of Alpine Canyon | 6/11/1935 | 2 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 7-8 by 3-4 unfinished | Cottonwood cotton, willowblossom, and cobwebbs. | Nest in mapletree ten ft from ground. 20 ft from stream, bird very excited | Harold C. Hutchings | |||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | Alpine, UT. Near school house spring | 7/2/1934 | 2 | Bird with nest | Heavy | one inch | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss and a few feathers covered with moss-lichens and bits of fine bark. woven in with cobwebb. | Nest on limb of dead quaking aspen near spring. | |||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | American Fork Canyon | 6/12/1934 | 2 | Bird on nest | Light | 3-4 inches | 3-4 inches | Plant down covered with moss lichens and cobweb. | Found near mutual dell. in Choke Cherry tree at end of dead limb hanging over stream. | H. | ||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | American Fork Canyon | 8/1/1932 | Bird | 7-8 inches | 3-4 inches | Soft tree cotton lichens and cobweb. I watched fight with squirrel which finally robbed the nest. | On dead willow overhanging stream near south dugway. | H. | ||||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 6/20/1933 | 2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7-8 inches | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss wound with cobweb | Apple tree on slender limb 3 ft from ground. | H. | ||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 7/30/1934 | 2 | Bird on nest | One hatched while bring home | 3-4 inches | 7-8 inches | Cottonwood and sycamore floss covered with bits of bark, cobweb, and lichens. | H. | |||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 6/21/1932 | 2 | bird near nest | Light | 3-4 inches | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss, lichens, bits of wood from pole fence. built over last year. | In apple tree near end of limb 5 ft from ground. | Hutch | ||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | West of Lehi, UT. On road to Mosida. | 6/28/1932 | 1/4 | bird at nest | 3 1/2 cup 4 1/2 outside | Srring, grass, and wool. | Nest in crossarm hole of telephone pole 25 ft up. nest metal hung out and down pole 6 to 8 inches. | G. H. | ||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | bone farm, north of Lehi, UT. | 6/25/1936 | 5/3 | bird at nest | Slight | Grass, Rags and wool. | Nest on crossarm of electric power pole, sheltered by insulator. | G. H. | ||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Pelican Point in utah county, Utah. | 6/26/1933 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 4 inches 5 1/2 over all | 1 1/2 inches | Weed stalks and wool | In half dead cottonwood tree near house. | J. H. | ||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | "Bull River" north of Lehi, UT | 6/29/1933 | 3/3 | Birds at nest | Slight | Usual | In half dead poplar tree 25 ft from ground. | |||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Bone farm at point of Mt. Lehi, UT. | 6/20/1936 | 4/5 | Bird at nest | Usual | String, weed stalks and wool. | Nest under wheel(grass) of windwill 30 ft up. | J.H. | ||||
Arkansas Kingbird | Arkansas Kingbird Eggs | Tyrannus verticalis | Saratoga Springs Lehi, Utah. | 4/16/1934 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 3 1/2 cup 5 overall | 1 1/4 | rags (part of old flag), string, weed stalks and wool. very well made but bulky. | In forks of old dead ash tree 20 ft up. Oriole nest in same tree on living limb. | J.H. | |
Say's phoebe | Say's Phoebe eggs | Sayornis saya | Delmonte Rush Valley, Utah. | 7/8/1931 | 1/5 | bird on nest | fresh | 3 1/4 cup 6 overall | 1 1/2 | a few bits of tumbleweed, mostly wool, well covered with cobwebs. | Nest on old railroad lie up ed as beam in cellar under old deserted house. | J.H. | |
Western Flycatcher | Empidonax difficilis difficilis | American Fork Canyon, UT. South dugway | 6/26/1933 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 in 5 in overall | 3/4 in | Weed stems, fine bark stripes, and moss. held together with spiderweb and cocoons. | On a little rock shelf under large rock under high bank of creek. 2 ft from surface of water. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/29/1933 | 3-4 | Sure | Fresh | 3 by 3 1/2 outside 2 by 1/2 cup | Fine grasses, milkweed fibers, and hair. cobweb used on outside. beautifully constructed. | In dwarf willows bordering marsh, 6 1/2 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/30/1933 | 6-4 | Sure | Fresh | 3 1/2 by 4 outside | 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 inside | grasses, fibers, and hair. | Wild rose thicket. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/30/1933 | 5-3 | Bird on nest | Heavy | 3 by 3 3/4 outside | 2 1/4 by 1 3/4 | Fine grasses, milkweed fiber, lined with hair and fine rootlets. | Dwarf willows bordering marsh 8 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/29/1933 | 4/4 | Sure, Bird on nest. | Fresh | 3 3/4 by 4 outside | cup 2 1/2 by 2 1/4 | Fine bark, grasses and plant fibers. | In dense wild rose thicket. | J.H. | ||
Desert Horned Lark | Desert Horned Lark eggs | Otocoris alpestris alpestris | Foothill north end of lake Mt. Cedar valley. | 4/25/1935 | 2/3 | Bird leaving nest. | Fresh | 3 1/2 cup. 4 1/2 overall | 3/4 | Fine grasses, a few horse hairs. | Nest at the side of a boulder, on grassy ridge, several nests in locality. | J.H. and H.C.H. | |
Desert Horned Lark | Otocoris alpestris alpestris | Foothill, Lake Mt. Cedar valley, Utah. | 7/1/1935 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Slight | 3 in 4 1/2 in overall | 3/4 in | Fine cheatgrass lined with finer bits of same nest. | Nest on ground under small sagebrush, on rocky ridge. | J.H. | ||
Magpie | Magpie eggs | Pica pica hudsonia | Dry Creek, North of town. Lehi, Utah. | 3/30/1931 | 1/6 | Bird | Fresh | 10 in inside 17 in outside | 3 ft top to bottom | Outside sticks, inside good coat of mud lined with grass, hair, rootlets and hair. | In Haw tree (Hawthorn), 12 ft from ground, bulky structure well built, well protected by thorns. | J.H. | |
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | Evans Farm - West of town Lehi, UT. | 7/3/1932 | 3/8 | sure | Fresh | 8 in cup 2 ft outside | 2 feet | Stick, cup made of mud. Poorly lined with rootlets, grass, and few stripes of rag. | In black willow tree 30 ft from ground. Poorly constructed. Sparrow hawk nest in woodpecker hole about 10 ft under. | J.H. | ||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | North of town, Dry Creek. Lehi, Utah. | 4/10/1933 | 4 | Sure | Blood | 9 in cup 3 1/2 ft length of nest | Sticks, cup of mud, will lined with coarse grass and rootlets, some horse hair. | Nest in thorn tree, 10 ft from ground, tree full of sticks - several years accumulation. | J.H. | |||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | New Survey, West of Lehi, UT. | 4/20/1933 | 5/9 | Sure | Reoccurrence of blood | 8 in cup 2 ft outside | Sticks, mud cup well lined with grasses and horse hair. | Nest in lone thorn tree, 12 ft from ground, second time nest has been noted this year. | J.H. | |||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | West of town, Lehi UT | 5/10/1934 | 6/8 | Sure | 8 in cup 2 ft | Sticks, cup of mud well lined with grass and rootlets. | Nest in top of willow and wild rose clump, well protected. | J.H. | ||||
Woodhouse's Jay | Woodhouse's Jay eggs | Aphelocoma woodhousei | Tickville, Utah. (West of Lehi, UT) | 5/10/1940 | 4/7 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 in by 4 in outside | cup 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 | Sticks as foundation and side walls. Cup - cedar bark, grass and wool. | In small, very compact, cedar in bottom of gulch. nest placed near main trunk of tree, very hard to see. | ||
Woodhouse's Jay | Aphelocoma woodhousei | Tickville, West of Lehi, Ut. | 5/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Bone forming | 8 in by 4 in usual | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Foundation of sticks, lined with cedar bark, grass and wool. | In very compact cedar tree in bottom of gulch. four other nests in locality with newly hatched birds. each 4 birds. | |||
Raven | Raven eggs | Corvus corax sinuatus | Mountain south of 5 mile pass, Cedar Valley, Utah. | 4/6/1941 | 5 | Birds | Heavy | 3 ft overall | cup 11 in by 4 in | few sticks, wool and cedar bark. Snow all around and behind nest. Several inches deep, but interior of nest dry and warm. | directly under eagles nest 20 ft ( in ledge). | ||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | North end of Rush Valley, Utah. | 4/7/1933 | 4/6 | Sure, Birds. | Fresh | usual | Sticks, small cedar sprays and wool. | Nest found in ledge about 20 ft high in the north end of rush valley, south of 5 mile pass. | J.H. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 5 mile pass between Cedar and Rush valley, Utah. | 3/30/1933 | 3/8 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Built up 14 in. 8 in cup | 5 in | Sticks, cedar bark and wool. | Nest located on timber under railroad bridge about 30 ft high. Very hard to get at because of the steel cover on bridge. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Range, South of 5 mile pass. Utah County | 4/28/1939 | 7 | Birds very active in air. | Heavy | 3 ft by 3 ft very bulky | 12 in by 4 in | Pine sticks, cedar bark and wool. | In ledge. Notch and nest well concealed from below, but only 10 ft from foot of cliff. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 5 mile pass, Cedar valley | 4/28/1939 | 6 | Birds out on nest, other sitting on railroad track along nest. | Fresh | 2 ft overall 14 inches deep | cup 4 1/2 in by 10 in | Small sage brush and wool. | Nest laid on cross tie under railroad track spanning 5 mile wash. 30 ft above stream bed. nest had been destroyed 15 days before by railroad track men. 3 eggs were destroyed at that time. eggs of this set record small. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 1 1/2 miles South of 5 mile pass on range between Cedar and Rush valley | 4/14/1939 | 6 | Bird on nest. Mate in air. | Fresh | 20 in across 12 in deep | cup 5 by 12 | Sticks of pinion pine, cedar bark and wool. Exceptionally well made. | Notch in rock. Almost to full of nest to permit birds. Every north and exposure about in center of 60 ft cleft. Eagle nest 45 ft south of great horned owl, 2 eggs 20 ft below. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Lake Mt. Eastside | 5/7/1940 | 6 | Birds at nest | Heavy | 30 in overall 2 ft deep | cup 4 in by 12 in | Large sticks, brush, cedar bark, cup of wool. | Nest in old eagle nest in ledge, 50 ft from top of ledge, 20 ft from base. Very difficult to get at. P. Falcon in same ledge 100 ft South. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Cedar Valley, Ut. | 4/16/1941 | 6 | Birds at nest | Fresh | 20 in by 2 ft 8 in deep | cup 4 1/4 in by 11 in | Sticks, mostly sage brush, lined wall wool, rabbit bones. | In old house. nest built on rafters. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | West of Della utah | 4/16/1938 | 6 | birds | Fresh | 4 ft overall 12 in cup | 18 in with 5 in deep cup | Sage brush, shadscale and cottonwood twigs lined with bark and wool. | In tall cottonwood tree 32 ft from ground. Only tree in a radius of 3 miles. | J.H. | ||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Cedar valley, UT. | 4/15/1937 | 5 | Birds | Light | 10 in cup across 23 in overall | 5 in deep cup | Mostly wool, a few sage sticks on outer edge. To hold nest in notch in the rock. | About 10 ft up in ledge south side of five mile pass. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | West side Utah valley | 3/21/1938 | 4 | Birds at nest | Fresh | cup 12 in 18 overall | 5 1/2 in cup | Sticks and wool - very compact. Great horned owl nesting around point of rock not 20 ft away. 3 eggs. | In rock crevice in ledge, South side 7 mile pass between Utah and Cedar valley. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax | 4/14/1940 | 6 | cup inside 11 in by 5 in outside 4 ft. | Composed of sage and cedar sticks, lined with cedar bark and deer hair. | In cliff about 35 ft up, nest built in crevice of rock. Took falcon eggs from same place last year. Canopy of sticks about nest, heap of sticks below. | |||||||
Pinyon Jay | Pinyon Jay eggs | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, west of lehi, UT. | 5/20/1939 | 5 | Bird on nest | Bone forming | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 3 in | Sticks. Outside very bulky but neat. Lined with grass, cedar bark and rootlets. | In Pinion pine 8 ft from ground. Saddled on ??? limb bird unafraid. 17 nests in this colony all with young on this date except this one. | ||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Clay Canyon, Utah. East of Sunshine. | 5/10/1939 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 9 in by 3 1/2 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 in | Small sticks, bulky, bird - neat. Lined with cedar bark and wool. | In cedar tree 5 ft up, tree near bottom of canyon, 5 nests in groups. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, UT. (west of Lehi, UT.) | 5/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Sticks lined with bark stripes and wool. | Many nests with young in locality. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, Utah. | 5/14/1940 | 5 | Bird on nest | fresh | 8 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Sticks outside lined with cedar bark and wool. | In Pinion tree - saddled on hog limb 6 ft from ground - tree near bottom of canyon. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Cedar flat on west slope of Lake Mt. above claybed. | 4/9/1933 | 8/4 | Bird flushed | Fresh | 8 1/2 in | 4 in cup | Twigs, rootlets, bark, and wool. | Cedar tree 5 ft from ground on limb near outer edge of tree. | J.H. | ||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Cedar flat on west slope of Lake Mt. Cedar valley, UT. | 4/9/1933 | 7/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh of blood | 8 1/2 in - 5 in cup | 4 in | Twigs, rootlets, bark, and wool. | In old cedar, 3 old nests. appearance of a succession of nests by same bird. | J.H. | ||
Yellow Headed Blackbird | Yellow Headed BlackBird eggs | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | |||||||||||
Yellow Headed Blackbird | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | ||||||||||||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | ||||||||||||
Red Winged Blackbird | Red Winged Blackbird eggs | Agelaius phoeniceus | Clark Farm. Lehi, UT. | 6/23/1933 | 6/5 | Sure | Fresh | usual | Almost entirely of grass rootlets that had been uprooted by cultivator. | In water grass, around margin of field 10 in from ground. | J.H. | ||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | West of town. Lehi, Ut. | 6/12/1931 | 4/4. 1 cowbird | Sure | Fresh | usual | Grass stalks and milkweed fiber. | Wild rose bush, 4 ft from ground. Cowbird egg in set. eggs covered with egg yolk and stuck to bottom of nest. | J.H. | |||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | Bullrush marsh, Utah lake. Above Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1931 | 3/5 | Sure | Fresh | usual | Rushes, lined with fine water grass and horse hair. | Attached to dry rushes, 3 ft above water. | J.H. | |||
Bullock's Oriole | Oriole eggs | Icterus bullockii | College home west of Lehi, Ut. | 6/13/1931 | 1/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 5 by 8 | Milkweed fibers, horse hairs, and twine string. Nest almost white. | In top of silver cottonwood tree, 40 ft from ground, birds had nested in same tree for years. Built another nest and raised brood after this was taken. | J.H. | ||
Bullock's Oriole | Icterus bullockii | Bull River, North of Lehi | 6/26/1936 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Fresh | 4 1/2 in by 7 in | Almost entirely of black horse hair. A few strips of milkweed fiber. | The nest was hung out on the end of a slender limb high in the tree (black willow), it was necessary to cut the limb and let it to the ground with a roap (old fashion word for rope). We located 10 oriole nests in same locality. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Brewers Blackbird eggs | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Bull River Lehi, UT | 6/6/1933 | 5/6 | Sure | usual | grass and weed stems, over old robin nest. | In ground up black willow stump 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | New Surray. Lehi, UT. "Grandpa" | 5/20/1931 | 1/6 | Sure | Heavy | 4 in cup 6 in outside | 3 in cup | grass and plant fiber | In grown up black willow stump at edge of beet field, 6 ft from ground. | J.H. and Tom. | ||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Willow patch West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/23/1931 | 2/5 | Sure | Slight | usual | grass and plant fiber, well lined horse hair. | In wild rose bush, 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Near Utah Lake, Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1934 | 6/6 | Bird on nest | Slight | 4 in cup 6 in overall | 3 in | Grass | Nest in animal track in salt grass pasture. Nest almost level with ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Evening Grosbeak | Western Evening Grosbeak eggs | Coccothraustes vespertinus / Hesperiphona vesperina montana | Salem, UT. | 5/27/1936 | 3 | "Sure" both birds at nest. | Fresh | 6 in outside 3 1/4 in inside | 2 inches | Fine twigs and rootlets. Asparagus fern outside. Loosely but very well constructed. Lace like inside. | In oak 12 ft from ground. | Gibone and Arra Wind. | |
Goldfinch | Gold Finch eggs | Spinus tristis | Found at Saratoga. | 7/4/1936 | 4 | Bird near nest | Nest constructed of grass and bark stripes compactly put together. Lined with horse hair. Plant down was also used in the construction. The nest was completely hid from view until the leaves were parted and then there it was in full view, containing 4 pale, blueish white eggs, unmarked. | In the undergrowth of a box elder about 3 ft from the ground. Female near the nest. Very nervous. Would fly from tree to tree, then fly to small plants and grasses near the ground. Which bowed nearly to the earth with its weight. But still it would cling there and sway back and forth, chirping as it did, until it had to shift positions and then it would fly to another tree and then back near the nest. | J.H. | ||||
Goldfinch | Spinus tristis | Saratoga | 7/4/1936 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 4 in across | 2 in | Grass, Bark stripes, Plant down. | In undergrowth of boxelder. | J.H. | ||
Pine Siskin | Pine Siskin eggs | Spinus pinus | Home. Lehi, UT. | 11/21/1922 | 1/2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 4 in overall cup 1 3/4 in by 1 in | Outer small dry pine twigs woven together with fine wotlets and a little string. Inside lining fine wotlets, horse hair, and soft plant cotton or milkweed. | In evergreen tree in yard, 5 ft from ground, season had been very warm, heavy snow on night of Feb. 22. Almost covered bird and nest over, but bird stayed with nest, fluttering the snow away with her wings. Eggs chilled and never hatched. | |||
Pine Siskin | Spinus pinus | Lehi, UT. | 4/25/1936 | 4/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in outside 1 1/2 in cup | 3 1/4 in | Evergreen twigs from 1 in to 4 in long wotlet's string and horsehair. | In evergreen tree in wins park 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Tickville, UT. West of Lehi. | 6/7/1937 | 2-4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in outside | 3/4 in deep 3 in cup | Fine dry cheat grass sage brush leaves. | Nest concealed at bottom of small green sage brush surrounded by tall cheat grass. Almost impossible to see, as nest was submerged. | J.H. | ||
Savannah Sparrow | Savannah Sparrow eggs | Passerculus sandwichensis | West Lehi, Utah. | 6/30/1933 | 1-5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 in across | Lined rootlets, grasses, and dead leaves. | Nest on ground well concealed in pea patch. bird felt secure when approached. | J.H. | ||
Western Lark Sparrow | Lark Sparrow eggs | Chondestes grammacus strigatus | Grand Pan. Lehi, Utah. | 7/1/1935 | 5/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 in 4 1/2 in overall | 3/4 in | dry grass, a little hair. | On ground in beet field, well concealed between beet plants. | J.H. | |
Western Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus strigatus | Grand Pa Lehi, UT. | 6/26/1934 | 4/4 | Bird Leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in cup | 1/2 in deep | Very little material used. fine weed and grass. | At side of dry burdock stalk at edge of field. On ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Chipping Sparrow | Chipping Sparrow eggs | Spizella passerina | Lehi, UT. | 7/4/1936 | 2/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7 in by 2 in outside | cup 1 1/4 in deep by 3 in | Of rootlets, grasses and hair - very loosely constructed. | In Plum tree 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | |
Western Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina | Lehi, UT. | 7/1/1938 | 1/4 | Bird | Heavy | 6 in outside 3 in inside | 1 1/4 in | Cheat grass stems, rootlets, string and hair. Loosely constructed. | In plum tree 12 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Clay Colored Sparrow | Clay Colored Sparrow eggs | Spizella pallida | West of Lehi. | 6/13/1934 | 2/4 | ??? | Fresh | 4 in across | 2 in deep | Grasses, bits of bark, and hair. | Tall rabbit bush. | J.H. | |
Brewer's Sparrow | Brewers Sparrow eggs | Spizella Breweri | North end of Cedar valley. Utah. | 5/4/1938 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Dry grass, rootlets, and plant fibers, and hair. | In sage brush 2 ft high. | J.H. | |||
Brewer's Sparrow | Spizella breweri | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/4/1938 | 2/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | usual | dry grasses and rootlets lined with hair. | In sage brush on flat 2 1/2 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewer's Sparrow | Spizella breweri | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/4/1938 | 3/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | usual | In rabbit bush, 3 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||||
Clay Colored Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow eggs | Spizella pallida | Cedar valley | 6/13/1934 | 1/4 | ??? | Fresh | 4 in by 2 in deep | Grasses, bark, and hair. | Grease wood bush | |||
Spurred Towhee | Spurred Towhee eggs | Pipilo maculatus montanus | North end, Tickville, Utah. | 5/20/1938 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Outside 8 inches | 3 inches | Sage bark stripes lined with oak leaves, grass and bark. | 6 ft from bottom of ravine on south slope of hill. on ground under scrub oak and sage bush. | ||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Tickville, UT. | 5/20/1938 | 2/3 | Flushed bird from nest | Slight | usual | Sage bark stripes lined nest. | At foot scrub oak near top of hill on northside. | ||||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Tickville, UT. | 6/1/1938 | 3/4 | Bird at nest | Heavy | Sage bark stripes lined with grass oak leaves and bark. | Foot of scrub oak. | |||||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Foot hills north of Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 1/3 | Bird fussing near nest | Fresh | 4 in 5 1/2 in overall | 1 1/2 in | Dry leaves and grass well lined with fine grass. | Nest on ground in clump of oak bush, well concealed. | J.H. | ||
Green Tailed Towhee | Green-Tailed Towhee eggs | Pipilo chlorurus | "Tickville" West of Lehi, UT. | 5/27/1933 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Weed stems, grasses, fine twigs and rootlets. Dry leaves. | Nest set on root projecting from bark. under overhanging scrub oak. near a spring. | J.H. and H.C.H. | |||
Red Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | Benton Co. Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 5 | 3 inches | 1 inch | fine grass and horse hair. | In small hollow of walnut tree (black). Ten feet from ground. | |||||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Black Headed Grosbeak eggs | Pheucticus melanocephalus / Zamelodia melanocephala | West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/1/1931 | 1/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in overall | shallow cup | Loosely constructed of rootlets, grass and sprays of asparagus. | In dwarf willows, 8 ft up, near creek. | J.H. | |
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/26/1931 | 2/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in overall | Very shallow | Fine sticks and rootlets. | In wild rose and willow thicket, 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Olson place. Lehi, UT. | 5/31/1931 | 3/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 in cup 7 in overall | 3/4 in | Rootlets, wild mustard stalks. | Nest in wild plum thicket, overhanging creek 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Home. Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1931 | 4/3 one cowbird | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 inches | Shallow | fine weed stems, rootlets and bits of string | On horizontal limb of pear tree, 12 ft from ground. Nest in same tree three years in succession. Birds left nest when cowbird was removed. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Willow patch, west of home. Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1934 | 6/6 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7 in 3 3/4 in cup | 3/4 in | grasses, rootlets and milkweed fiber. | In wild rose and willow thicket 8 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Home | 6/10/1936 | 7/2 One cowbird | Watched bird build nest. | Fresh | 6 1/2 in overall 3 1/2 in cup | 3/4 in | Grass stems, wild mustard and rootlets. | In apple tree, 12 ft from ground, birds left nest when Cowbird egg was removed. | J.H. | ||
Tree Swallow | Tree Swallow eggs | Tachycineta bicolor | Silver Lake Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1938 | 1/5 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 1 1/4 in hole. | Decayed wood | In dead aspen, 12 feet from ground. | |||
Violet Green Swallow | Violet Green Swallow eggs | Tachycineta thalassina | Bird valley, north of Timpanogos, Provo Canyon, Utah. | 6/25/1938 | 1/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Decayed wood, small twigs. | 20 feet up in live aspen - in same tree with purple martin. | ||||
Loggerhead Shrike | Loggerhead Shrike eggs | Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/18/1931 | 1/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 4 in cup 7 in outside | 2 in | thorny sticks and tumbleweed stalks, lined with wool and a little fine grass. Several rabbit bones placed around on tree. | In small compact cedar 5 ft from ground on outer edge of grove. | J.H. | |
Yellow Warbler | Yellow Warbler eggs | Dendroica aestiva (Now is named Setophaga petechia) | Lehi, UT. | 6/21/1931 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Fine plant fiber, mostly milkweed, lined with hair. | In top of plum tree 20 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Sage Thrasher | Sage Thrasher eggs | Oreoscoptes montanus | Field west of town. Lehi, UT. | 6/4/1932 | 1/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in cup 7 in outside | 4 in | Sticks of greasewood lined with grasses. | In greasewood bush, 4 ft from ground, well concealed. | ||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | River bank west of Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1933 | 2/3 | Bird leaving nest | slight | Usual | rather long twigs of greasewood, tumbleweed, and grasses. Neatly lined with fine grass. | In greasewood bush, 5 ft from ground, 20 ft from river. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Grampa's Pasture west of Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | Usual | Twigs, weed stems, and grass. | In isolated greasewood, 4 ft from ground, very well concealed. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Field west of town, Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 4/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 4 in cup 7 in overall | 2 1/2 in cup | Twigs, weed stems and grasses. Some horse hair in lining. | Grease wood bush in fence corner, very well concealed. | |||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | South of road west of Jordan. Lehi, UT. | 6/6/1936 | 8/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Usual | Twigs, lined fine grass and horse hair. | In greasewood bush, 18 inches from ground. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | West of Saratoga Springs - Lehi, Utah. | 7/4/1936 | 2/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | Usual | Usual | In thick greasewood patch along wash. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Woofenden Farm. Lehi, UT. West of river. | 6/16/1936 | 9/5 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 8 in overall 3 1/2 in cup | 2 1/2 in | Twigs and weed stems, neatly lined with fine grass. A little wool. | In greasewood bush 2 ft from ground 20 nests found. 10 a patch of greasewood. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Western Mockingbird eggs | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | North West of Woofenden home. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/13/1938 | 4 | 8 1/2 by 4 | cup 4 by 2 3/4 | Greasewood sticks 'base', lined with fine grasses, wool and plant leaves. | Greasewood - 3 ft from ground - usual. Sunshade of sticks. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Little Valley back of pelican point, Utah. | 6/24/1940 | 4 | Birds - Maru birds | Several pairs | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 3/4 in | Sticks - grass, bits of cedar bark and plant fiber. | Nest in better bush. 3 ft from ground bird undisturbed by my working nearby. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Woofenden Farm. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Observed | 8 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 1/2 in | sticks gathered around yard, some hay lined with bits of bark, string, wool and small bits of rag. | Nest in rosebush 25 feet from house, wonderful singer. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Greasewood patch, north and west of woofenden farm. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1938 | 4 | Birds | Fresh | About - 8 in by 3 1/2 in outside | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 in | Usual, Greasewood foundation with well woven compact, inner lining with fine grasses, wool and soft plant leaves. | In greasewood bush 4 ft from ground. Well made sum shade placed over nest. bird very shy. flyed off nest and flew along ground among bushes for 50 feet. Many sage thrashers in this locality 20 nest located in this 60 acres. Eleven nests found and observed in this group. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. South West of Saratoga Springs. | 6/10/1939 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 in by 3 1/2 in | cup 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 in | usual sticks of greasewood with bulky outside and well constructed, well lined cup. (grasses, wool, and plant leaf.) | Usual sunshade several birds in locality, but didn't seem to be nesting. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, Utah. | 5/30/1936 | 4 | Took bird | Fresh | 8 in overall 5 in deep | cup 4 in by 2 3/4 in | Outside rough sticks of greasewood lined with grass, hair, wool, and soft plant fiber, soft leaves from small plant common to locality. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 7/2/1936 | 3/4 | Sure | Light | Usual | Greasewood | J.H. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 5/30/1936 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 10 in overall | 3 1/2 in cup | thorns, grass, rootlets, and soft weed leaf. | In greasewood about 3 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 6/4/1936 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Greasewood | J.H. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Lehi, Utah. | 6/4/1936 | 1/4 | Sure | Heavy | Same as set one | In greasewood bush, 4 ft from ground, about 100 yards from nest #1. | Eunice Hutchings | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | South west of woofenden home. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/28/1938 | Birds | Observed | 8 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in - 2 1/2 in | Usual sticks of greasewood, lined with wool, grasses and bits of plant fibers. | |||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Woofenden home - west of Lehi, UT. | 1938-06-21 | 4 | Birds | Observed | 8 by 3 | 3 1/2 in by 2 1/2 in | Usual Greasewood stick foundation with neat well woven cup composed of wool grass and soft leaf. | ||||
Rock Wren | Rock Wren eggs | Salpinctes obsoletus | Pelican Point, Utah. | 5/26/1940 | 2/6 | Sure | Fresh | Fine grass and rock | 6 inch hole under a rock along side of track, 2 1/2 ft up. | ||||
Rock Wren | Salpinctes obsoletus | Pelican Point, Utah. | 5/29/1938 | 1/6 | Sure | Fresh | Fine grass and rock. | 2 inch hole in cliff 30 feet up. | |||||
Parkman Wren | Parkman's Wren eggs | Troglodytes aedon parkmani | Silver Lake flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/8/1938 | 4/7 | Sure | Fresh | Porcupine hair | In live aspen tree 8 feet up. | ||||
Parkman Wren | Troglodytes aeden parkmani | American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 6/2/1936 | 2/7 | Sure | Fresh | Small chips and deer hair. | Deserted woodpecker's nest in dead quaking aspen, 12 ft from ground. | |||||
Western Marsh Wren | Western Marsh Wren eggs | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/10/1931 | 1/6 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail downing. | Bull rushes, nest about 3 ft from water. | |||
Western Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/28/1935 | 5/7 | Sure | Heavy | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail downing. | Bull rushes, nest about 3 ft from water. | ||||
Western Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/10/1936 | 6/6 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail dowing. | Bull rushes, Nest about 3 ft from water. | ||||
Nelson Nutchatch | Sitta carolinensis nelsoni | Above Granite Flat. American Fork Canyon. | 6/18/1938 | 1/5 | Fresh | Abandoned woodpecker hole in side of tree, 30 ft up. | J.H. | ||||||
Willow Thrush | Willow Thrush eggs | Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola | South Fork. American Fork Canyon, UT. | 7/24/1931 | 1/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 in overall 3 in cup | 1 3/4 in cup | Strips of soft bark, Dry half rotted leaves, rootlets and some grass. Lined with fine rootlets and grass green moss around edge. | In Dogwood, hanging over creek fully exposed to sun. | J.H. | |
Willow Thrush | Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola | Granite Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1932 | 2/4 | Bird on nest | Slight. Blood. | 3 in cup 5 1/2 in outside | 1 1/2 in. | Strips of quaking aspen bark, fine twigs, and leaves. | In top of dwarfed fir tree, 4 ft from ground fully exposed to sun. eggs bleached. | J.H. | ||
Willow Thrush | Hylocicihla fuscescens salicicola | Silver Lake Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1932 | 3/4 | Bird on nest | Slight | 3 1/4 in by 6 in | Bark strips, moss and dry leaves. Lined with fine grasses and rootlets. | Nest in side of old quaking aspen tree in cavity made by bark pealing off. 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Olive Back Thrush/ Swainson's Thrush | Olive Back Thrush eggs | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | Silver Lake Flat | 6/24/1932 | 1/3 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in by 5 in | 1 1/2 in | Bark strips and grass. Lined with same met. | In Fork of small maple tree in grove. 8 ft up. | J.H. | |
Olive Back Thrush/Swainson's Thrush | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | Hanging Rock, American Fork Canyon. | 7/26/1932 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 in cup. 5 in overall. | Bark strips, grass, and rootlets. | Small maple tree in grove near road, 7 ft from ground. Nest in fork of tree. | ||||
Olive Back Thrush/Swainson's Thrush | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | North Fork, American Fork Canyon. | 7/6/1935 | 4/4 | bird slipping from nest | Fresh | 3 in cup 5 in overall | Bark strips, dry leaves, grasses, and a few bits of paper. | On top of small tree stump that had growth of branches around end, 5 ft from ground. Just a few feet from campstove. | ||||
Hermit Thrush | Hermit Thrush eggs | Hylocichla guttata pallasi | Tibble Hollow, American Fork Canyon, Utah. (I think he combined pine hollow and Tibble fork together as one place.) | 6/29/1936 | 6/4 | Bird on nest. | Slight | 3 1/2 in cup 5 in overall | 1 1/2 in cup | bark strips, weed stalks. Lined with fine grass and rootlets. | On ridge at head of Tibble hollow in dwarfed evergreen. Very well hid. | J.H. | |
Hermit Thrush | Hylocichla guttata pallasi | American Fork Canyon near Silver Lake | 6/12/1934 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest. | Slight | 3 1/2 in cup by 5 in | 1 1/2 in cup | Bark strips, small weed stalks, and 20 ft grass. A little dry moss. Tucked in around edge. | In small compact spruce 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Robin | Robin eggs | Turdus migratorius / Planesticus migratorius | Lehi, Utah. | 4/4/1932 | 2/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | Milkweed fiber, string, a few bits of rag, grass and weed stalks. Lined with mud, grass, and hair. | On lower limbs of evergreen tree near outer-edge, 9 ft from ground. Tree in yard near my home. | J.H. | ||
Western Bluebird | Sialia mexicana occidentalis | West field. Lehi, Utah. | 7/2/1932 | 1/5 | Bird in nest. | Fresh | 4 in | 8 in | Bark strips and feathers. | An old woodpecker hole in black willow tree 5 ft from ground bird dead on nest. | |||
Bluebird | Sialia | Knot hole in wall of cereal mill, Lehi, Utah. | 7/3/1933 | 2/6 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 2 in hole | 6 in | Feathers, few bits of rag, and grass. | Nest between sheeting of wall of cereal mill, 20 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Bluebird | Sialia | Mouth of West Canyon, Cedar valley, Utah. | 5/16/1936 | 3/6 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | hole 2 ft deep | Soft bark strips and grass. | hole in high bank of creek, several nests in same locality. | J.H. | |||
Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | North end of Cedar valley, Utah. | 5/16/1936 | 6 | Sure | Fresh | few grasses, bark, and feathers. | In small hole, the bank of 30 ft wash. Nest in 30 inches. | J.H. | ||||
Sparrow | Tickville, UT. | 5/30/1938 | 1/4 | Fresh | 2 1/4 in inside | 1 1/2 in | Dry grasses, films, hair, and a few feathers. | Top of Sage brush 30 ft high. Bird much smaller then previous | J.H. | ||||
Blue Jay | Blue Jay eggs | Cyanocitta cristata | Benton County Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 4 | 4 inches | 2 inches | Small sticks, mud, grass and paper. | 8 ft from ground, On south side of spanish oak tree. | ||||
Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata | Benton County, Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 3 | Fresh | 4 inches | 2 inches | Small sticks, grass and paper. | 30 ft up in the crotch of spanish oak tree. Near swamp. | ||||
Idaho Screech | Can not identify ( could be the Western Screech-Owl - Megascops kennicottii) | American Fork Canyon near Mutual Dell. | 6/3/1934 | 1/3 | Caught bird in nest | Fresh | Opening 2 1/2 in | 10 in | no nesting material, except wings of small bird eaten by owls. | Nest in live quaking aspen, 16 inches in dim, 12 ft from ground. Bird unlike any other owl I have ever seen, Dark brown eyes, Bird 6 7/8 in long. 15 in wingspread. | |||
Junco | Junco eggs | Junco hyemalis | Silver lake Flat, American Fork canyon. | 7/4/1937 | 4, two broken. | Heavy | 3 inches | 3/4 inch | dry grass and rootlets. | At foot of aspen tree, nest level with ground, bird unwilling to leave nest. | J.H. | ||
Gray Headed Junco | Junco phaeonotus caniceps | Divide between American Fork and Provo Canyon, Utah. | 6/25/1938 | 1/4 | Fresh | Grass and weed stacks. | On ground at foot of aspen, well concealed by grass. | ||||||
Crow | Corvus | Dry Creek. Utah. | 1940-04-16 | Saw pair of Crows | By old Kirkham place to try possible nesting pair. |
Common Name | Egg Photo Example | Scientific Name | Locality | Date | # of eggs | Identification | Incubation | Nest diameter | Nest Depth | Composed of | Location | Additional notes | Collected By |
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Pied Billed | Polilymlus podiceps | North East End of Strawberry Lake UT | Birds 6 sets of 3 | 8 sets of 4 all in state of time from blood to bone | 8 inches across | Dead rushers woven into a flealing | The day after the visit a huge wind destroyed all of the nests, hundreds of eggs were on the shallow lake bottom 10 to 14 inches of water | ||||||
Ancient Murrelet | Ancient Murrelet eggs | Synthliboramphus antiquus | Sanak Island Alaska | 6/6/1894 | 2 | Bird on nest | About one/fifth | Under rank matted grass a slight depression lined with fine grass, soft and dry | Sanak Island Alaska | Chase Littlejohn | |||
Night Hawk | Nighthawk eggs | Chordeiles minor | Pelican Point West shore of West Lake Utah co. Utah | 7/22/1933 | 6-2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | No nest | Running out into lake near where people walk everyday. Bird unafraid, only | ||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | Mouth of West Canyon Utah | 7/6/1935 | 7/2 | Bird on eggs | Fresh | No nest | Eggs laid on soft ground under soft cedar tree | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | Mouth of West Canyon Cedar Valley UT | 11/24/1936 | 8/2 | Bird flushed | No nest | Eggs on nest mold under cedar tree bird flushed | Lauret & Eunice | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | West Canyon North End Cedar Valley UT | 7/11/1931 | 1-2 | Bird on Nest | Heavy our egg hatched on the way home, the other about half incubated. | No nest, eggs among pebbles about sign of cedar | B.M. | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | About 1 mile up west canyon (to east, north end Cedar Valley) | 7/2/1932 | 2 | Bird on Nest | Heavy our light | No Nest | Always a thrill nest on eggs found on open ground among pebbles on sandy ridge a few days lush and cedar uar | |||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | North End of Cedar Valley UT Co. Utah mouth westvcanyon | 7/4/1933 | 3-2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | No attempt at nest | On pebbles | Found on Cedar covered point at east side of mouth of west canyon on ground in open sface among cedars and tall sage lush birds hand to flush from nest | ||||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | North end of Cedar Valley utco UT mouth of west canyon | 7/4/1933 | 4-2 | Birds on nest | One Fresh, other slight | Eggs in dust | No nest | Found about 50 ft from set #3 of same date the unusual thing was the lack of pebbles or sand. eggs lay in fine dust at foot of large cedar, day hot, bird didn't like to leave the nest. | Eunice | |||
Night Hawk | Chordeiles minor | East side of Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah at foot of lake | 7/6/1933 | 5-2 | bird on nest | heavy - one egg piped | no nest | eggs found in open space about 20 feet in cedar grove. | Eggs on ground among sand and gravel about the same color as eggs. Unusual thing was the lack of water, none within 10 miles in any direction. | ||||
Forster's Tern | Forster's Tern eggs | Sterna forsteri | near Tamington Davis county, Utah | 6/5/1937 | 2/2 | birds fussing around | Slight (brood) | Green and dry grasses | On top of muskrat den | R.G.B. | |||
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | North shore of Utah Lake near mouth of spring creek Lehi | 5/28/1934 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 7 feet | 0 | Bits of rush and water weeds, very few | Nest on ground on sand bar, very poorly constructed, many Avocet Nests in Locality | |||
Forester's Tern | Sterna forsteri | ||||||||||||
White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | island in Utah Lake | 5/7/1933 | 1/2 | Bird at nest | fresh | 12 inches | 1 | Sand Scooped up by bird | Nest on ground on north end of island. Bird Left at our arrival, gulls pounced upon eggs and would have soon succeeded in eating them. | |||
Blue Winged Teal | Spatula discors | Farmington Bay, Davis County, Utah | 5/16/1937 | 1/9 | bird on nest | fresh | grass, rushes and down from bird | R.G.B. | |||||
American Bittern | American Bittern eggs | Botaurus lentiginosus | Southwick Pasture, Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/1/1934 | 4/3 | Sure | Heavy | 8 Inches | 4 | dry rushes | in dry rushes near open water, nest on ground | ||
American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | North shore, Utah Lake (Tule) Powell Pasture | 5/20/1931 | 1/4 | Bird flushed from nest | heavy | 8 inches | 3 | Rushes (dry) | Nest in rushes 4 inches above water Loosely constructed | John Hutchings | ||
Great Blue Heron | Great Blue Heron eggs | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 5/5 | Sure | Usual | Rushes | Colony in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 6/5 | Sure | Usual | Rushes | Colony of 60 nests | R.G.B | ||||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 3/5 | birds | slight | usual | Rushes | in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 4/5 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Rushes | Colony in Rushes | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Mud Lake, Provo, Utah county, Utah | 4/14/1932 | 2/4 | Fresh | 2 feet platform | 3 | Rushes | in Rushes, nest 2 feet from water large colony | R.G.B. | |||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | East Provo Bay, Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 5 | Birds Canny | 30 inches | depressed to hold eggs | sticks and weeds | Full of Rushes, Nest on 6 incehs of water | colony of approximately 40 birds | |||
Snowy Egret | Snowy Egret eggs | Egretta thula | Utah Lake, Provo, Utah County, Utah | 4/19/1932 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 12 foot platform | 6 1/2 cup | rushes | in rushes with herons, nest 18 feet from water | ||
Black Crowned Night Hawk | Nycticorax nycticorax | Provo Bay, Utah Lake, Utah County, Utah | 5/7/1932 | 1/4 | Sure, Birds | Light | 14 inches | 2 inches | Rushes | Colony in Rushes, Nests near ground | R.G.B. | ||
Black Crowned Night Hawk | Nycticorax nycticorax | Provo Bay - Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 5 | Colony of about 100 birds | approximately 12 inches | depressed to hold eggs | over 12 inches of water | Near where creek empties | ||||
Virginia Rail | Virginia Rail eggs | Rallus limicola / Rallus virginaianus | Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1937 | 4-10 | Birds | blood and thickening | 5 1/2 inches across | 3 inches | grass | in marshy meadow on shore of Utah Lake | John Hutchings | |
Sora Rail | Sora Rail eggs | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 6/13 | Eggs and Bird | Fresh | 5-7 inches overall | well cupped | green grass | nest in meadow, a few feet from edge of pond, bird stayed on nest until I stopped to touch her, then only ran a few feet | John Hutchings | |
Sora Rail | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 5/15 | sure | 5 1/2 inches | well cupped | grass (green) | nest in the meadow, about 2 inches above water, well made with basket handle woven over the top, west of town. | John Hutchings | |||
Sora Rail | Porzana carolina | Lehi, Utah | 6/9/1937 | 4/15 | Bird | Slight blood | 6 inches | well cupped | green grass | under fence in marsh near R.S.W Rail Road west of town nest well made with grass woven over top of nest forming a basket | John Hutchings | ||
Wilson's Phalarope | Wilson's Phalarope eggs | Phalaropus tricolor / Steganopus tricolor | old ice pond, Lehi, Utah | 6/11/1935 | 4/4 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 6 inches | 1 inch | dry grass | on ground near flowing well, well hidden by tall grass, one white egg shell rather soft. | ||
Wilsons Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor / Steganopus tricolor | Clark Pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/23/1933 | 2/4 | bird flushed | fresh | 6 inches overall | 1 inch | dry salt grass | nest on ground in marshy meadow | Laurel H. | ||
American Avocet | American Avocet eggs | Recurvirostra americana | West shore of Utah Lake, near Pelican Point | 5/30/1936 | 6/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Weeds and bits of rushes | in clump of grass 100 feet out in water, possibly 100 nests on shore in sand, visited site a few days later after high wind, all nests were gone. | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Island in Utah Lake | 5/28/1933 | 4/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5-6 inches | shallow | bits of Rush weed stalk, very little met used because of lack of growth | on ground near center of island away from gulls 10 nests in colony | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | East shore of Great Salt Lake near mouth Of Jordan River | 4/23/1933 | 3/4 | sure | fresh | Usual | bits of salt weeds and rushes | on ground around small bay of fresh water possibly 100 nests in colony | John Hutchings | |||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Shore of Utah Lake near pumps | 5/1/1932 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 5 inches | 1 inch | mud, and a few bits of tumble weeds | on ground, soft from water, 20 nests in colony | John Hutchings | ||
American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Utah Lake, Provo, Utah | 5/7/1932 | 2/4 | birds | fresh | usual | on ground on point running into water 50 nests in group | John Hutchings | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah, South of town | 6/10/1920 | 3/4 | sure | fresh | usal | grass, well built for snipe | on tuft of grass 6 inches in diameter, surrounded by water | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah West of town | 5/20/1920 | 2/4 | fresh | 6 inches | 1 inch | dry salt grass | in meadow on ground near marsh | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 5/14/1933 | 13/3 | bird | first stage of incubation | usual | grass | nest in tall grass at edge of pond near Jacob's farm | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah near Jordan River | 5/12/1933 | 10/4 | bird on nest | fresh | usual | grass | nest near edge of marsh, hidden in tuft of grass, tot pasture | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 4/15/1935 | 4 one broken | sure | heavy, leg bones formed | usual | grass | in marsh pasture north of flour mill past town | earliest set in my collection | LLoyd Gunther | ||
Wilsons Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 4/26/1935 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | dry grass, set in center of Tusset of grass | 6 inches above water, near dank of old ice pond east of town. | Virgal Hutchings | |||
Wilson Jacksons Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Old Dairy west of Town, Lehi, Utah | 6/22/1936 | 25/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | 2 inches | dry salt grass | nest on bank of small stream only a few inches from water | |||
Wilsons Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/21/1933 | 4 | Bird on nest | fresh | Fine Grasses, very well constructed for snipe | north shore of Utah Lake, E. Davis Grass land. nest 20 feet from flowing well | J-I | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/10/1933 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | dry salt grass | in marsh pasture (S. Clark) | J-I | ||||
Wilsons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/2/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Dry grass | Evidently a second set from #12-4 5-14-1933 nest not far from other site | J-I | ||||
Wilson Jacks Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 6/2/1933 | 4 | sure | fresh | salt grass | on dry salt grass ridge clark pasture | J-I | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Utah | 5/30/1933 | bird on nest | fresh | usual | very little material used, other green grass tramped down | This nest very unusual in construction and location, built between wheel tracks of unfrequently used road at the crossing of small stream near Evan's farm | J-I | ||||
Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/27/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Salt grass | in salt grass pasture So. of state highway at forks of road East of Lehi. Varney Pasture | J-I | ||||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/23/1933 | 4 | Sure | Slight | Usual | Dry salt grass | This nest was perched upon one of a thousand grass covered pedestals made by cows wading in mud 14 inches from water level. HC. Evans Pasture West of town. 3 other nests found close eggs too heavy take. | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/14/1933 | 4 | Flushed Bird | fresh | Usual | drygrass | This most beautiful set was taken under a fence in tall wire grass 2ft from waterfilled borrow pit 20 ft from R.G.W.R.R. | J-I | |||
Wilson's Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/14/1933 | 3 | Sure | Slight | Usual | Slight depression dry grass | This et was left several days after finding to make sure of a full set. In G. Jacobs pasture near pond. | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/12/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Slight Depression | grasses | On little rais in dry salt grass about 20ft from spring. Clark Pasture northwest of town. | J. H. | ||
Wilsons (Jack) Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | West of town. Lehi, UT | 6/20/1932 | 9/4 | Sure | Usual | Grasses | On ground hidden in grass Carters Pasture | |||||
Wilson (Jack) Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Near Jordan River, Lehi UT | 6/4/1932 | 8/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | On ground in tuft of grass above water in marsh | |||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | South of old ice pond Lehi, UT | 5/25/1932 | 6/4 | Sure | slight | 5' | 1/ | Salt grass | in grass around telephone pole in swamp | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT north of Mill pond | 5/29/1932 | 7/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5' | 1 1/2 | Dry Grass | On ground near spring | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Old Lake Resort. Lehi, UT | 5/20/1932 | 5/4 | Sure | Usual | Salt Grass | Near flowing well. On ground covered by dock leaf | |||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT | 5/15/1921 | 4/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5' | 1 1/2 | Dry Salt Grass | On ground near 'Blue spring' | |||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | 5/1/1920 | 1/4 | bird on nest | Heavy | Grass | In marsh 2 miles west of Lehi, UT. Nest in short grass about 20 ft from water. | John Hutchings | |||||
Wisons Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Wallsburg, UT. | 6/7/1936 | 26/4 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | 1 1/2 inches | Grasses | In Marsh pasture west of highway. | |||
Wilson Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Near old river bridge. Lehi, UT. | 5/1/1935 | 24/4 | Sure | Slight | Usual | 2 | Dry grass | On ground in dry grass on bank of creek where it empties into river. | S. Adams | ||
Wilson Jack snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, Ut. | 6/1/1933 | 4 | Sure | Fresh | Grasses | Clark's pasture, Northwest of town. | H. | ||||
Wilson Jack Snipe | Gallinago delicata / Capella gallinago delicata | Lehi, UT. | 5/12/1933 | 4 | bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | Grasses | First set of the season. Ice on part of marsh. West of Lehi in marsh near Jordan River, fox pasture. | John Hutchings | |||
Western Willet Egg Card | Western Willet eggs | Tringa semipalmata / Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus | Near river North of pumps Lehi, UT | 5/9/1933 | 2/4 | Sure flushed bird | Fresh | 5 1/2' | 2' | Hole in ground little lining | Nest under smallest rabbit brush on nole. Nest level with ground. Curlew nest 25ft away. | ||
Western Willet Egg Card | Tringa semipalmata / Catoptrophorus semipalmatus matus | Pelican Point, Utah Lake, Utah | 6/3/1936 | 4/4 | Sure, bird on nest | fresh | 5 inches | 2 inches | depression in ground | nest in center of alfalfa field completely hidden, bird undisturbed by our presence | |||
Spotted Sandpiper | Spotted Sandpiper eggs | Actitis macularius / Actitis macularia | Lehi, UT SW Clark | 6/23/1935 | 4/4 | Bird | Slight | 6 over all | 3/4 | Few dry weeds | Between rows of onions. Bird very tame scarcely leaving nest when cultivator destroyed it, However she never returned to claim the rebuilt nest. | ||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitis Macularia | Clark field, Lehi UT | 5/16/1936 | 6/4 | Bird on nest | Blood | 6' overall | 3/4 | grass | Nest in slight depression under cabbage plant. Birds 3rd attempt at nesting, each nest only a few feet from the other. Each destroyed by cultivation | JH | ||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitus Macularia | A.F. Canyon UT CoUt | 7/6/1933 | 3/4 | Bird | Light | 4 | Sand | In coarse sand on creek only a few ft. from water. Bird flushed when fisherman almost stepped on her | H.C.H. | |||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius / Actitis Macularia | Jordan River, Alred ranch Lehi,UT | 7/3/1935 | 5/4 | Bird flushed | 6' overall | 1' | Dry grass. Well made for sand piper | On ground in salt grass pasture. Only a few yards away from river. | ||||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularia | North shore of Utah Lake. Utah. | 1932-06-14 | 2/4 | Bird flushed. | Heavy - pipped. | 4 1/2 inch | 1 1/2 inch | Dry grass | On ground on sandy ditch bank under clump of grass. | |||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | ||||||||||||
Long Billed Curlew | Long Billed Curlew eggs | Numenius americanus | Pelican point UT lake UT. Co. Ut. | 5/26/1933 | 8/4 | Sure | Fresh | 8' well cupped | 4 | Very little nest. Mat. | Nest located on sand bar about 1 m. south of point. no protection at all, simply hole scooped in sand. Bird hesitated to leave nest. I stood a long time and watched her. | J.H. | |
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Provo, UT | 5/20/1934 | 9/4 | Sure | Slight | about 8' | 2' | Poorly constructed. A few bits of cow dung and a very little salt grass | West in center of old road. Bird did not move until car wheel almost struck her. East side of UT lake 1/2 M. So. of compromisemo | J. H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, UT | 5/5/1936 | 10/4 | Sure | Fresh. | 7 1/2' | 4' | salt grass. Very well made and lines | Nest 1/2 M. north of rimping plant Jordan river on top of nole. In dry grass. Wind was blowing very hard when the bird left the nest the wind threw her to the ground the eggs rolled from the nest, are cracked. | |||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Mosida, Utah County, Utah | 5/10/1936 | 12/4 | Sure | Heavy | 8 inches | 3 1/2 inches | salt grass | nest in open salt flat about 3 meters south-east of old Mosida Hotel site. At least 12 pair of nesting birds in locality | J.H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | West of Lehi, Utah | 4/20/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | F | 12 inches overall | 3 dry | Impression in earth at the side of a very small ball of brush in salt grass meadow, a few bits of dry grass was the only nesting material used. | ||||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | west of Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 4/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 9 inches across | 2 1/2 inches | depression in earth lined with dry grass, a few feathers from bird breast | near beams of house, bird unafraid | |||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | West of Salt Lake City, Utah | 4/23/1933 | 5/4, 6/4, and 7/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | 2 inches | Salt grass, very poorly constructed | West of air port, on gun club ground, Salt Lake City, Utah | R.H.Bee and I were on this trip | ||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/1/1932 | 3/4 | Sure | Fresh | 7 1/2 inches | 4 inches | Well cupped hole in ground lined with salt grass. | north shore of Utah Lake, LDr. Worlton's pasture, bird at nest | J.H. | ||
Long Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1933 | 4/4 | Sure | fresh | 8 inches | 3 1/2 inches | depression in soil, lined with salt grass, well made for a curlew | nest about 1/2 mile from pumps at head of Jordan River, located on top of little knoll 30 feet from river, short eared owl nest with 5 young 40th north and western Willet 65th east | J.H. | ||
Long-Billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Shore of Lake on ground, short salt grass | 5/1/1932 | 2/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 6 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression in dirt, lined with dry grass | South end of Utah Lake (near mosida Utah, Utah County) | John Hutchings | ||
Long billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Salt grass pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/27/1931 | 1/4 | Sure | Heavy | Usual | grass and horse dung | north shore of Utah Lake, in pasture South of Lehi, Utah County, Utah, near Lulirs | John Hutchings | |||
Killdeer | Killdeer eggs | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Island, Jordan River west of Lehi, Utah, grandpas | 5/19/1931 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | 4 inches | 1 1/2 well cupped | nest in hole made by bird in salt grass pasture neatly lined with grass, several nests in close proximity. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Summit County | 6/4/1932 | 4 | bird leaving nest | good 1/2 | usual | depression with bits of grass | Boulder side hill 25 feet higher and 75 feet distant from lake | Leet | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lake shore west side of Utah Lake near Pelican Point. | 7/2/1936 | 12/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | unlined | hole in fine sand near water many nests with young Avocets nearby | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | grain field near Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 6/16/1936 | 11/4 | bird flushed | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | unlined | on ground in center of grain field | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Clark place, Lehi, Utah | 5/10/1936 | 10/4 | Sure | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | hole sparingly lined with a few bits of dry weeds | on ground in onion row | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Grandpa's cornfield, Lehi, Utah | 5/4/1935 | 9/4 | Bird on nest | Heavy | 4 inches | 1 inch | small clods | on ground between rows nest would have been destroyed by cultivation | T.C. | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | West of Lehi, Utah, salt grass pasture | 4/23/1934 | 8/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 1/2 inches | cow dung | nest most unusual, in top of dry cow dung, bird had used natural depression in top of dung. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah, old Murdock resort | 4/20/1934 | 7/4 | sure | fresh | pebbles | on ground near foot of large willow tree | |||||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Evans Pasture, Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1933 | 6/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | dry grass in hole | on ground between wheel tracks on old wagon road through salt grass pasture | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lehi, Utah, R.G.W. RR grade 3 feet from switch stand | 5/19/1933 | 5/4 | sure, bird at nest | slight | 4 inches | 1 inch | pebbles | on ground not more than 6 feet from end of tie dozens of trains pass daily | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Beet Field, Lehi, Utah, (Grandpa's) | 6/28/1931 | 4/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 1 inch | no nesting material used | on ground in row, no attempt made at lining perhaps frequent disturbing by cultivating had caused bird to neglect beautifying home surrowndings. | |||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | shore of Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/25/1931 | 3/4 | sure | slight | 4 inches | 1 1/2 inches | hole in sand | on ground, sand bar former lake shore, nest lined with small pebbles and shells. | John Hutchings | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus / Oxyechus vociferus | Lehi, Utah, west of town | 5/8/1931 | 1/4 | bird flushed | slight | 4 inches | 1 inch | small hole in sand on creek bank lined with small pebbles no other nest materials. | John Hutchings | |||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Old Provo and beach, Utah Lake, Provo, Utah | 4/30/1936 | 6/3 | Bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | sand | nest in sand among shells nest well cupped completely patched around rim with shell. | |||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Salt Lake County | 6/8/1933 | 1/3 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression in earth scooped by bird, lined with bits of shell | nest 12 inches from wheel track of road between two sloughs | R.G.Bee | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Salt Lake City, Black Slough area, North-west of Salt lake City | 5/13/1935 | 2/3 | bird leaving | heavy | 4 inches | 3/4 inch | slight depression with lime chips at rim | nest on shoulder of road which runs through dry slough | R.G.Bee | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Sandy beach east side of Utah Lake near compromise monument | 4/30/1936 | 5/3 | Bird Leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | slight depression in sand, well rimmed with shells | 1/2 mile from water | John Hutchings | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | West side of Utah Lake, near Pelican Point, Utah County, Utah | 4/25/1936 | 4/3 | bird leaving nest | fresh | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression in sand rimmed with shells | on sandy bar outside of tamerac, 50 feet from water | John Hutchings | ||
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus / AEgialitis nivosa | Black Slough area north west of Salt Lake City | 5/13/1935 | 3/3 | bird leaving | 4 inches | 1 inch | depression with time bits at rim | on shoulder of road | ||||
Dusky Grouse | Dusky Grouse eggs | Dendragapus obscurus | Alpine, Utah in canyon east of power plant | 6/1/1939 | 7 | sure, bird on nest | eggs piped on chick out | about 9 inches | depression under small bush, beside power pipe line, didn't bother for fear bird would leave nest | John Hutchings | |||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | West Canyon, Utah County, Utah | 5/30/1936 | 1/7 | bird on nest | slight | 7 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression scratched in ground, well concealed under sagebrush and rotten log | near crest of hill, bird flushed from nest by sheep, never returned, eggs collected 3 days afterward cold and deserted. | John Hutchings | ||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | West Canyon, West of Lehi, Utah | 6/11/1939 | 7 hatching | bird flushed | about 8 1/2 inches | depression sparingly lined with dry grass and feathers from bird and leaves | under small sage on South slope of ridge near top | John Hutchings | ||||
Dusky Grouse | Dendragapus obscurus | Alpine, Utah, ridge east of power plant | 6/4/1939 | 6 | birds | hatched | 8 1/2 inches | slight depression in dirt under sagebrush 6 feet off trail, few bits of dry grass and feathers from the bird | about 9000 feet elevation, eggs hatched and birds left nest an hour | John Hutchings | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Wallsburg Wasatch County, Utah | 6/7/1936 | 2/7 | Sure | Heavy | 8 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression scratched under sage brush, sheltered by large rock | Bird flushed by cows on 27th of May, Raining bird did not return, nest filled with water discoloring eggs on underside. Children visited nest often, bird wasn't seen again, eggs taken on June 7th. | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Strawberry valley, north end | 5/15/1938 | 6 | bird | 1t | 10 inches overall | 2 inch depression | grass and a few dry willow leaves | South side of Hay stack knoll, bird unusually tame | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | Strawberry Valley | 5/10/1938 | 6 | Bird on nest | F | about 8 inches overall | 2 1/2 inches | little dry grass and a few feathers | side of knoll under sagebrush much like chicken nest | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West of Lake Strawberry | 5/30/1937 | 6 | bird on nest | bloody | 9 1/2 inches | grass and feathers | at the side of large rock on little knoll in full sun | ||||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West canyon (West of Lehi Utah) | 6/10/1940 | 7 | nest deserted | H | 9 inches | 1 1/2 inches | depression near rotten log in small sagebrush | near top of ridge | |||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | West of Lehi | 5/1/1939 | 7 | bird on nest | fresh | 10 inches | 2 inches | dry sage, leaves, and a few feathers from bird. | nest near top of ridge among tall sagebrush opening to the south overlooking canyon | John Hutchings | ||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | 5/5/1939 | 8 | flushed bird | blood | 8 1/2 inches | 1/2 inch | slight depression in rocky ridge no nesting material used except a few feathers from bird nest at the feet of very small sage near horse trail | |||||
Sage Grouse | Centrocercus urophasianus | 5/20/1939 | 8 | sure | slightly | 9 inches | 1/2 inch | depression with bits of grass at foot of sage | |||||
Mourning Dove | Mourning Dove eggs | Zenaida macroura / Chaemepelia passerina terrestris | Old dairy farm west of Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1933 | 1/3 | bird on nest | fresh | 5 inches overall | slight cup | nest on large horizontal limb of black willow tree, 5 feet from ground fist set of 3 dove eggs, I have even found bird very trustful and allowed me to touch her before she left the nest. | John Hutchings | ||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | near Utah Lake, at mouth of dry creek, Lehi, Utah | 8/4/1936 | 10/2 | bird on nest | one egg piped other heavy | 5 inches overall | slight depression in sand few weed stems around edge | best on sand bar which ran through meadow, unprotected from sun, exposed to full view of passersby | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull river north of Lehi, Utah | 7/20/1936 | 9/2 | bird leaving nest | heavy | 5 inches | slight depression on ground | about 4 feet off the side of alpine road, nest at foot of small sage, bird had not made much attempt at nest making, had scraped a few bits of dry cheatgrass together to form a circle around eggs. | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull River, North of Lehi | 7/12/1936 | 8/2 | bird on nest | fresh | 6 inches overall | coarse weed stalks | on top of stump which had grown up with suckers and dried handy enough nest material to hold eggs in place | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Bull River, north of Lehi, Utah | 6/23/1936 | 7-2 | bird on nest | one fresh and the other heavy | 5 1/2 inches overall | old black bird nest | bird had utilized an old black bird nest on the side of black willow stump, held in position by dead suckers | John Hutchings and Mal Urtson | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Beet dump, Lehi, Utah | 6/22/1936 | 6/2 | bird on nest | heavy | 5 1/2 inches overall | bits of weed stalks and very few bits of grass | on cross tie weed as support under beet dump | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | foothills north of town, Lehi, Utah | 6/18/1936 | 5-2 | bird on nest | one egg fresh, other heavy | usual | slight depression with very little nest material other than dry sage leaves which had fallen from bush. | on ground at foot of small sage bush, several nests in same locality | John Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | bro Jacobs pasture, Lehi, Utah | 6/16/1936 | 4/2 | bird on nest | heavy | usual | a few bits of milkweed fiber | on ground among gravel scraped from creek 4 feet from water, nest partly hidden by milkweed stacks | Eunice Hutchings | |||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Lehi, Utah | 5/24/1936 | 3/2 | bird on nest | flush | 5 inches overall | slightly cupped | very few grass and weed stalks | nest on grade of DRG WRR in pebbles and partly hidden by a bunch of lucem | John Hutchings | ||
Mourning Dove | Choemepelia passerina terrestis | Lehi, Utah 6th north 5th west | 5/22/1936 | 2-2 | bird on nest | flush | usual | grasses and twigs (very few) laid upon dead leaves which had accumulated at the face of a bunch of sucker limbs | on the side of a half dead poplar tree 5 feet from ground bird unafraid. | John Hutchings | |||
Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Benton bounty, Miss | 4/30/1934 | 2 | Sure | fresh | 18 inches | rotten wood | in old hollow oak tree eggs laid on bottom wood right on level with ground | ||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Marsh Hawk / Northern Herrier eggs | Circus hudsonius | Lehi, Utah, Robert's pasture Jordan River | 5/12/1933 | 1/4 | Sure, Bird on nest | Fresh | 24 inches outer, 14 inches cup | 4 inches cup, 10 inches nest | base of tumbleweeds, rushes lined with soft rushed, very well made | nest on old rushes, has been in this locality for years, about 100 feet from river | John Hutchings | |
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Sugar Factory, Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1936 | 3 | Bird Flushed | slight | 16 inches across | almost flat | on ground in tall dry grass | near edge of straw that runs from mitt pond | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | south-east of Lehi, Utah | 6/30/1938 | 5 | bird flushed | bone forming | 24 inches | on top of matted rushes flattened by bird sitting on them, two muskrat skeletons on mat near nest. | |||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | west of Lehi, Utah | 5/12/1938 | 5 | bird flushed | blood | 14 inches across | almost flat | on ground in meadow, fine horse manure, used as nesting material, well hid by dry meadow grass. | allred's ranch on Jordan River | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Saratoga, Utah | 6/29/1939 | 3 | Bird flushed | H | 2 feet slight cup | 14 inches | dry rushes tramped down. platform about 3 feet in diameter | on lake shore east of saratoga spring | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Saratoga Spring, Lake shore | 5/4/1940 | 5 | bird in air | slight | 20 inches across | 2 inches | nest on pile of wind piled tumbleweeds a few sticks of sagebrush were used in outlining nest. few soft grass were also used for lining nest, best marsh hawk nest I have found. | ||||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Lehi, Utah RObert's pasture Jordan River | 5/22/1934 | 2/6 | birds at nest | heavy | 24 inches | flat | rebuilt rushes and grass | same nest as set 1/4 5-12-1933 was taken from | John Hutchings | ||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | fields west of Lehi Utah County, Utah | 6/20/1934 | 5 | bird flushed | bone forming | 24 inches across | almost flat | hardly enough material, nest ground just the matted dry grass used for nest, old tumbleweeds around to hide it. otherwise open country | short eared owls nests in same pasture. | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | West of Lehi, Utah | 6/7/1934 | 5 | bird on nest | fresh | 24 inches across | flat | dry rushes and tumble weeds two sticks of sagebrush. | nest laid on matted rushes in swamp 18 inches above water thumman's swamp | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | north shore, Utah Lake, Lehi, Utah | 5/25/1935 | 5 | bird flushed | slight | 24 inches | slight cup 8 1/2 inches | weeds and matted rushes | on ground at the edge of lake hid by dry rushes and some grass, duck nest 22 feet away in grass | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Shore of Utah Lake, South of Lehi, Utah | 5/3/1936 | 4 | bird flushed | F | 18 inches | almost flat | a few pieces of willow and tumble weed laid on solid foundation of matted rushes. rushes (many years growth) were so thick they held me up | John Hutchings | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | West of Lehi, Utah South of river bridge | 5/25/1935 | 6 | bird flushed | blood | 24 inches across | almost flat | matted rushes, a few small sticks of rabbit brush and feathers from bird | nest 2 feet from ground (water) and dry matted rushes | |||
Marsh Hawk / Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | South of Sugar Factory, Lehi, Utah | 6/19/1936 | 3 | Bird Flushed | slight | 16 inches across | almost flat | on ground in tall dry grass | near edge of straw that runs from mitt pond | |||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Sharp Shinned Hawk eggs | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | 2 miles north of lehi, near creek | 6/20/1938 | 4 young birds | young in nest | fully feathered left nest when disturbed | sticks and rootlets had from Red-Tail nest year before, but only a few of the original nest remained | 30 feet up in Cottonwood tree on horizontal branch thick grove of them all around | John Hutchings | |||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | Alpine canyon, Utah county | 5/29/1937 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | 8 inhces | 1 inch | small sticks, a little bark | nest about 10 feet up in corner on horizontal limb 6 feet out from trunk. tree near pipe line of Ut. Power and light where walking past almost everyday | collected by Mr. Peterson at power plant | ||
Sharp Shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus / Accipiter velox | in mouth of small canyon running out of provo canyon above vivian park | 6/24/1940 | 2 | bird | very heavy | 8 inches across | 1 cup | small sicks and a little bark , and dry leaves | on horizontal limb of conifer 15 feet up. 6 feet out from trunk. could be seen plainly from below. | |||
Coopers Hawk | Cooper's Hawk eggs | Accipiter cooperii | Tick Ville, Utah county, Utah | 6/25/1932 | 2/4 | bird at nest | fresh | about 14 inches | almost flat | sticks | nest on top of magpie nest very little done by hawk in oak brush near spring | John Hutchings | |
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Cedar Valley, Utah county, Utah | 5/18/1931 | 1/6 | killed bird as she left nest | eyes forward | tumble weeds | nest located in a large pile of tumbleweeds that the wind had blown together, best and eggs exposed to the sun and weather | |||||
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Tick Ville Utah county, Utah | 5/27/1933 | 3/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | shallow saucer shape | sticks old magpie nest, very poor nest | in patch of oak brush 12 feet from ground near spring same nest as set #2/4 6-25-1932 was taken | John Hutchings | ||
Coopers Hawk | Accipiter cooperii | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/18/1931 | 1/6 | shot bird at nest | fresh | 24 inches | 3 inches | tumble weeds | nest made on great pile of tumbleweeds, blown up by wind, no lining other than weeds | G.J. | ||
Goshawk | Goshawk eggs | Accipiter gentilis | AF Canyon north of Allamont camp | 6/10/1938 | 2 young birds | birds | usual | Sticks and bark, many feathers around edges of nest, bones of small birds perhaps thushes | John Hutchings | ||||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Bear Role off above mutual Dell AF canyon Ut. County | 5/17/1939 | 3 | bird on nest | blood streabs | 24 inches | 3 inches | sticks lined with stupes of bark, bark of quaking aspen | in quaking aspen grove nest in large tall tree, near top, overlooking canyon 5 old nests were in same grove birds very vicious, eggs couldn't be told from those of Red Tail | |||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Gramet flat near creek at canyon Utah county, Utah | 5/26/1939 | 3 | bird on nest | Fresh | 26 inches overall | 4 inches | sticks lined with bark stripe | nest 34 feet up in quaking aspen tree, without limbs up to nest. birds attacked while climbing tree driven away with flipers, tree in quaking aspen grove on ridge south of flat | John Hutchings | ||
Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Deer Creek, American Fork Canyon | 5/17/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | fresh | 26 inches across | 4 inches | sticks, bark stripe | nest in aspen grove just over ridge from one taken last year, nest in tall smoth tree 28 feet up. birds very vicious, attacking time after time driven away with flippers | John Hutchings | ||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Red-Tailed Hawk eggs | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Lake Mountain, east side of Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/16/1933 | 3/4 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | sticks, sage brush and rat dung. | nest in high rugged ledge on west slope of Lake Mountain watched bird come and leave nest very beautiful have visited the nest last year. 32 but set being incomplete did not take them | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north west end of Lake Mountain | 4/26/1937 | 3F | bird on nest | F | nest in old ravine west the hawks had done little to restore the old nest neither in adding material or in beautifying the cup was almost flat | in notch of cliff 30 feet high | John Hutchings | ||||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Lake Mountain Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 2/3 | sure | fresh | in crevice in cliff, rat manure and a few rabbit bones | nest on ledge in cliff about 50 feet up, two eggs in the nest one on narrow shelf about two feet below nest (bleached) | |||||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north of Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1936 | 3 | bird | H | 26 inches | 3 inches | sticks lined with fine twigs and bark stups | in tall cottonwood tree in creek bottom north of Lehi Utah, 25 feet from ground | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | South end of Cedar Valley Utah County, Utah | 4/30/1933 | 5/2 | sure | heavy | 24 inches | 5 inches | sticks of cedar and sage | in cedar tree 9 feet from ground, old nest I thing the nest was not build by Red Tail | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Tick Ville, Utah County, Utah | 4/26/1931 | 1/3 | bird on nest | fresh | 14 inches | sticks no lining | nest on top of old magpie nest, in oak brush 15 feet from ground bird very noisy, darting very close | John Hutchings | |||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | north west end of Cedar valley (Cedar Grove) | 4/21/1933 | 4/2 | bird on nest | heavy | old rough leg nest | old nest flattened out | sticks and bark and a dozen cacti pads and rabbit bones | I took set of rough leg from nest last year, Red-Tail had done little or no work on nest, in dead cedar tree east side of road Cedar Grove | H.C.H. | ||
Western Red Tail Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis / Buteo borealis | Goshen Pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/2/1933 | 6/3 | sure | slight | 24 inches | 4 inches | sticks and bark stips | cedar tree 12 feet from ground very good nest for Red-Tail | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | South end of Utah valley, near Allerla Utah County, Utah | 5/16/1932 | 1/5 | sure | 42 inches | 5 inches | large sticks twigs bits of cedar bark | the nest was in the top of a cedar tree about 8 feet from the ground had been rebuilt for several years until it would hold a thousand pounds and covered the entire top of the tree | ||||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | west slope of Lake Mountain, Cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/9/1933 | 3-4 | bird leaving nest | light blood | 2 1/2 feet across | 4 1/2 inches | sticks some rather large cedar twigs bark and larger than common, appeared to have been rebuilt several times | top of large white cedar about 15 feet up, south slope of small canyon. | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | Rabbit Valley 7 mile pass, Utah County, Utah | 5/25/1933 | 3 | bird on nest | F | 3 1/2 feet overall | 2 1/2 inches | sticks, sage, lined with cedar bark | nest in Cedar tree 10 feet from ground, bird unafraid, flew to a tree about 100 feet away and watched, male bird circled in air | |||
Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni / Buteo swainsoni bonapart | in the pass between Utah valley and Cedar valley west of Saratoga | 5/3/1940 | 4 | bird on nest | bone forming | 3 1/2 feet | 2 3/4 inches | sticks, lined with tumble weed and strips of bark several bits of worn out rope and pieces of egg cartons picked up from bear by sheep camp site. | In Cedar tree on edge of wash. | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Ferruginous Rough Leg / Ferruginous Hawk eggs | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | South west end of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1933 | 1-4 | birds | fresh | 3 feet across | 4 inches | sticks, cedar bark, and twigs a few bones | nest in top of a low bushy cedar, plainly seen for a mile distance, bird after leaving nest circled around many times crying male came from valley and both circled several times | ||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | north end of rush valley Toole County, Utah | 4/21/1933 | 3/4 beautifully marked | birds leaving nest | slightly | usually | sticks, brush, weeds and bark | nest in top of cedar tree at outer edge of grove, several nests in locality, three inhabited (eggs very unusual) | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/9/1933 | 2/4 | bird on nest | heavy | about 4 feet | 2 feet | sticks and tumble weeds lined with bark | nest in small cedar on south slope of hill at mouth of small canyon on Lake Mountain | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley west slope of Lake Mountain | 4/15/1933 | 3/5 | birds at nest | heavy | 3 feet 9 inches | 5 inches | sticks lined with bark and part of comic sheet from Salt Lake Tribune | In dead cedar at foot of mountain about 3 miles south of Cedar grove | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | 7 mile pass Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1933 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 4 feet | 20 inches | sticks - strips of cedar bark | nest in cedar tree, covering entire top. Both birds at nest very excited. one of the birds dark brown no white visible, other true marking of Ferruginous. 9 feet from ground | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | south end of Cedar Valley, goshen pass | 4/17/1932 | 2/5 | bird at nest | slight | 5 feet outside 12 1/2 inches inside | 5 inches | large sticks of Cedar and sage closely woven and rather firm, lined with bark and a few feathers from the bird. | bird very excited and circled close to me, giving wonderful opportunity to study | John Hutchings | ||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah county, Utah | 4/20/1934 | 1/3 | sure | 4 feet | 5 inches | sticks, bark, and tumble weeds | in cedar tree, 8 feet from ground | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Chimney rock pass, Utah County, Utah | 3/3/1934 | 5/5 | bird on nest | blood streaks | 4 feet 6 inches | 5 inches | entirely sage brush, lined with strips of cedar bark. Nest very neatly made. Round as if bade by man. Bird sat in nearby tree and watched. | nest covered entire top of small compact cedar tree, top of nest only 6 feet from ground, could see the eggs | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/8/1934 | 6/5 | bird on nest | slight | 5 feet | 18 inches | cedar sticks, sage brush, and tumbleweeds. Lined with strips of bark and old paper | nest in top of small cedar tree, isolated, near margin of foot hill 8 feet from ground, nest had been rebuilt many times. Tree almost full of sticks and nest material. great pile under tree. | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | west side of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/30/1936 | 3 | bird | Heavy | 2 feet 6 inches | 4 inches | sticks some of which were incredibly large. a great pile of sticks under tree (cedar) looked as though the birds had the misfortune of losing their first nest and had reconstructed it. the three eggs were heavy, almost ready to hatch | ||||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | south end of Cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/26/1936 | 2/3 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 feet | 6 inches | the usual sticks, cedar sticks and sage brush | 12 feet from ground | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | in lone tree (cedar) west of Goshen pass, cedar valley | 4/8/1936 | 3 | bird on nest | Heavy | 3 feet 6 inches | 12 inches | sage brush and greasewood, very bulky lined with fine brush and a little bark pulled from tree which held the nest | John Hutchings | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | on flat south of cedar fort, Utah County, Utah | 4/12/1935 | 3 | bird on nest | Heavy | outside 42 inches x 16 inches | 12 x 5 inch cup | sticks, sage brush, and wire from bailed hay. cup - sticks of cedar bark, bits of news paper. three lobes of cacti were among the sticks also a quantity of horse dung. Other items had been carried there by pack rats which were inhabiting bottom part of nest. | John Hutchings | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 1/15/1935 | 1/2 | bird on nest | fresh | 3 feet | 2 feet | sticks and tumble weeds, very well lined with bark | in small cedar 7 feet from ground, tree south of Cedar Fort, Utah, interesting dare, season very warm since xmas | |||
Ferruginous Rough Leg/ Ferruginous Hawk | Buteo lagopus / Archibuteo ferrugineus | west side of chimney rock pass, Utah and Cedar valley | 4/9/1939 | 4 | birds at nest | F | 4 feet x 18 inches | cup 11 inches x 4 inches | sticks and hay (carried from nearby sheep camp) cup lined cedar bark and part of old sheep hide, and a number of small dry bones. Three were old nests in nearly every cedar in this locality, 12 in all | John Hutchings | |||
Golden Eagle | Golden Eagle eggs | Aquila chrysaetos | Losser gulch north east side of Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 4/7/1940 | 4-2 | sure | bone forming | 5 feet across 7 feet deep | cup 13 1/2 inches x 4 inches | sticks of pine, cedar, and quaking aspen, lined with barks and fine fir bows | in tall thin fir tree 40 feet up tree, swaying badly when climbed, nest rebuilt over old one | John Hutchings | |
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side of five mile pass, cedar valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/14/1940 | 5-1 | sure | heavy | 4 feet 6 inches x 3 feet | cup 13 1/2 inches x 5 inches | sticks, sage brush, cedar bark and wood | about halfway up high 100 foot ledge, very hard to grab on hoop as ledge overhung ravine and great horned owl in same ledge within 100 feet. | |||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side of 5 mile pass Cedar Valley Utah County | 4/16/1941 | 1 | sure | Heavy | 4 feet 6 inches x 3 inches | cup 13 1/2 inches x 5 inches | same nest as set 5 was taken from last year | John Hutchings | |||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | South side Goshen pass between Utah and Cedar Valley | 4/9/1939 | 3/2 | sure | bone forming | 6 feet across 26 inches deep | 15 inches deep cup x 6 inches deep | sticks, mostly of sage brush a quantity of bailing wire and two Salt Lake Tribune news papers, the latter articles carried from the site of an old sheep camp half mile away | near tucked away notch in ledge | John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Located by Jas Bee | 4/4/1937 | sure | 8 feet by 8 feet | 5 feet | built of sticks cup composed of Cedar Bark and twigs of fir inside measuring 14 inches across 5 inches deep, rim was 8 inches wide, built up from the stick platforms, snow covered nest up to the rim platform, on landing, had been used many years. snow from 3 to 5 feet deep | after an extensive hunt by Mr. R.G. Bee, James, Eunice, and myself, three old sites visited before finally found. nest in large fir tree about 200 yards below the last years nest (almost at the bottom of gulch) nest was mammoth affair. | John Hutchings | ||||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Lossee gulch, north east side of Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 4/4/1937 | 2/2 | bird at nest | one half, bone forming | 8 feet across 5 feet deep | cup 14 inches across by 5 inches deep | sticks (base) lined cedar bark and sage of fir. Snow covered nest up to the 8 inches win | in large fir tree 30 feet from ground, on north slope of Mountain near bottom of ravine | R.G. Bee, James, Eunice, and John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | end of box elder Canyon, east of alpine Utah County | 4/23/1933 | 1/2 | birds | blood streaks | 8 feet across 4 feet deep | 16 inch cup and 5 inches deep | large sticks, cup fine soft barks, many sprays of fresh evergreen 'fir' around outside of nest, a few feathers from the bird in nest | nest in large fir tree 30 feet up | John Hutchings | ||
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | 4/14/1940 | 1 | Bird on nest | About half | nest 3 ft by 2 1/2 ft | deep cup 4 in | built of sticks, lined with cedar bark. Usual, pine bows around nest. | In cliff, directly under raven nest. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley - north west of Lake Mountain | 4/10/1932 | 2/5 | bird at nest | slight | crevice in cliff | eggs lain on ground | rat dung, two or three pieces of sagebrush in crevice but not part of nest | in open crevice in cliff 30 feet high, first cliff on north end and west side of Lake Mountain | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Long Canyon, Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County | 6/15/1934 | 7/5 | bird at nest | slight | crevice causing protected shelf in cliff | large enough for man to sit in | no nesting material used except for sand which had sifted in front of nest or eggs in back of shelf close to wall. Red-Tail's nest not more than 50 feet away in same cliff | John Hutchings | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Mountain, north of Topliff hill, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 6 | bird | F | 7 inches x 7 inches | 1 inch | depression scratched in rat dung, a few rabbit bones on rim of nest, likely carved in by rats before falcon came. | ledge flat over extending out from bottom crevice in ledge eggs could be seen from above, 120 feet | Harold H. | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/17/1932 | 3/5 | sure | fresh | 10 inches | 1 inch | very little, fine dirt in bottom of pot hole | in pothole near top of Chimney rock, north side | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | West side of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 4/9/1933 | 4/5 | (Sure) Bird on nest | fresh | very little done by falcons, as the nest had been taken from a pan of ravens who were still contesting the site, although they were building another nest about 200 yards along the same cliff. | In cliff about 30 feet from bottom and 10 from the top | John Hutchings and R.G. Bee | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah, Lake Mountain West side | 4/7/1935 | 8/5 | sure | fresh | crevice in cliff | slight cup 1 inch | rat dung | In cliff 20 ft from top nest well to the back of the hole | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, West side of mountain | 4/20/1935 | 9/5 | Both birds at nest | slight | Natural hole in rock | cup 1 1/2 inch rat dung | rat dung | nest in cliff at mouth of small canyon, about 1/2 way down Lake Mountain | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Goshen Pass, Utah County, Utah | 4/12/1936 | 10/5 | Sure both birds | fresh | 14 inches pot hole | eggs on ground | sand | nest in bubble like hole in ledge of pummie stone, 20 feet high, north side of pass 1/2 mile from road. | John Hutchings | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | East side of Lake Mountain. End of short canyon running west of cotton woods. | 4/21/1936 | 6 | bird | one egg light color with no yolk, very little smaller than nest | 8 inches x 8 inches | 3 inches | sticks and wool - apparently falcon had taken nest from ravens which were still in locality and building nest about 100 feet north in same ledge, birds were very quarrelsome and fought in the air the ravens were masters when two to one flushed, the ravens were soon driven away. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | North end of Lake Mountain, Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah | 5/2/1936 | 11/4 | sure | heavy | same nest as set 2/5 4-10-1932 | ||||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | West side of Lake Mountain, East of Fairfield, Utah | 4/14/1939 | 6 F | Bird | F | 8 inches x 8 inches | 1 inch | Rat dung eggs lay on rock | In ledge at mouth of small canyon, South front, in full sunlight most of day. | |||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | north end of Mountain, south side of 5 mile pass, Cedar Valley, Utah County | 4/16/1941 | bird on nest and in air | slight | no nest material | 1/2 inch | nest was slight depression in fine rat dung in notch of cliff. | North face of cliff but, well protected by over hanging rock. | ||||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock Pass, north side of pass. Utah County, Utah | 6/15/1933 | 4/6 first set of 6 | sure bird at nest | fresh | crevice in high cliff | no cup | old flattened crow nest, falcon had done little or no work on nest, second set of eggs taken from this nest this year, set of 5 taken 4-4-1933 | in cliff north side of pass about 1 mile off road, cliff about 75 feet | John Hutchings, HC. Eunice Hutchings and GB. | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Cedar Valley, Utah County, Utah west side of Lake Mountain | 5/21/1934 | 5/5 | sure | slight | crevice in cliff | 1 inch | Saucer scraped in rat dun, a few pellets and gnawed sheep bones. | nest in entrance to small cave about halfway up 60 foot cliff. Centuries of accumulated rat dung | John Hutchings | ||
Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | Chimney Rock pass, Utah County, north side of pass | 4/2/1934 | 6/5 | sure, bird stayed on nest until I almost reached the nest | one half | no cup | Old crows nest | same nest as set 4, 6-15-1933 was taken from, nest the same as last year except accumulation of rabbit bones. Rats had winter home under nest | ||||
Peregrine Falcon / Duck Hawk | Peregrine Falcon / Duck Hawk eggs | Falco peregrinus anatum | Pelican Point - Lake Mountain, Utah County, Utah | 5/20/1935 | 1/4 on broken | birds at nest | fresh | 7 inches | few sticks, egg on ground | in low ledge above old lime rock quarry, birds said to have been there for years - Mr. Cedarstrom | bird taken later and is now in my collection | Cedarstrom boy | |
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk eggs | Falco sparverius | Dry Creek, north of town, Lehi, Utah | 5/29/1934 | 10/5 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 14 inches | woodpecker hole | dead poplar tree, ready to fall over, 25 feet up | John Hutchings and H.C.H. | |
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah west of town | 6/5/1933 | 8/4 | sure | fresh | 5 inches | 8 inches | chips | same nest as set 7/5 5-16-1933 this is 4 sets of eggs taken from this nest this year, woodpecker 7 blue bird 5 SH 5 and SH 4 | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah 3rd ward | 5/9/1936 | 12/4 | sure | fresh | 4 inches | 10 inches | woodpecker nest | in black willow stump 5 feet from ground, G. Barnes Pasture | John Hutchings and G.J. | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah home | 7/20/1936 | 13/3 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 14 inches | woodpecker hole | half dead cottonwood 20 feet from ground, 3rd time birds have been robbed by boys this year | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, Dry Creek | 7/20/1936 | 14/4 | sure | fresh | 4 1/2 inches | 12 inches | chips in wood pecker hole | dead poplar tree 25 feet up | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/26/1933 | 11/5 | sure bird on nest | heavy | old magpie nest | sticks | nest in old magpie nest in haw tree about 8 feet from ground, eggs almost white | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah | 6/3/1933 | 12/5 | fresh | wood pecker nest | in old cottonwood tree 10 feet from ground | ||||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/29/1932 | 1/4 | sure | fresh | 16 inches | at Evan's farm west of Lehi, nest in woodpecker hole in black willow tree about 20 feet from ground | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah Old Rodeo Grounds west of town | 5/29/1932 | 5/5 | sure | heavy | 4 1/2 inches | 16 inches | chips | in old woodpecker nest in black willow tree 20 feet up | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, Dry Creek, north of town | 5/24/1931 | 3/5 | sure | heavy | 4 1/2 inches | 12 inches | chips | in deserted woodpecker hole 15 feet up cottonwood tree | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah, North of town, Dry Creek | 5/24/1931 | 2/5 | bird at nest | heavy | 4 1/2 inch opening | 12 inches | fine rotten chips, several feathers | old cottonwood tree 14 feet up | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/17/1931 | 1/5 | bird on nest | fresh | deserted wood pecker nest | 14 inches | fine chips in bottom | first sparrowhawk of the season, two miles north of Lehi, up Dry Creek, nest in cottonwood tree almost ready to fall down, pulled bird out of nest | |||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah 1 mile north of town 'creek' | 5/17/1931 | 1/5 | bird in nest | fresh | 5 inches | 14 inches | fine chips in bottom | old woodpecker hole in cottonwood tree 20 feet up, tree very tottery, bird taken from nest | John Hutchings | ||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/4/1932 | 5/4 | caught bird in nest | fresh | 10 inches | nest in black willow tree west of Lehi, 5 feet from ground, third set of eggs taken from same hole this year, one blue bird set 5 one Sparrow Hawk set of 5 and this one | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/4/1932 | 6/5 | bird leaving nest | fresh | old magpie nest | sticks | nest in tall willow tree 30 feet up, eggs laid on top of old magpie nest, extra large eggs | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 5/15/1933 | 8/4 | sure | fresh | old wood pecker nest | up dry creek north of Lehi, in old cottonwood tree | |||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah County, Utah | 6/12/1932 | 7/5 | sure | fresh | hole in bark | 24 inches | nest in hole in Jordan river bank at Horseshoe bend - birds nest in same hole year after year | ||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, Utah | 5/16/1933 | 10/5 | sure | nest in black willow tree, in natural crevice caused by tree splitting alterson farm west of town | |||||||
American Kestrel / Sparrow Hawk | Falco sparverius | Lehi, UT Co., Utah | 5/16/1933 | 9/5 | sure | Wood Pecker nest | Nest in black willow 12 ft up. Woodpeckers and hawks contrasting the heading sight infield west of town. | ||||||
Long Ear Owl | Long Eared Owl eggs | Asio otus | Cedar Valley, UT. (Cedar Grove) | 4/10/1933 | 2/5 | Sure. Bird at nest. | Fresh | 2 ft across | slight cup | Sticks and bark. old hawk nest. | Nest in top of Cedar in center of grove , 10 ft from ground. Owl has done little or no work on nest. Rats had used under part of nest for their home. | Eunice | |
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Great Horned Owl eggs | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. 7 mile pass | 3/24/1933 | 4/2 | Sure | Fresh | 12 in across flattened nest | Last year raven nest sticks and wool. | Nest in natural crevice in low ledge, South side of road near old Dovton well, 7 mile pass. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Northwest end of Lake Mt. Cedar valley, Utah. | 3/19/1933 | 1/2 | Bird on nest | About one week along | In ledge about 100 ft high, I took a set of raven eggs from same nest, 4/17/1932. Very hard to get to being indented on the face of cliff, George Born assisted me by letting me over cliff on roap (old fashioned word for rope). | ||||||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. Fire clay bed. 7 miles, west of town. | 4/7/1932 | 1/3 | Bird on nest | Heavy | Hole in wall of cut. | 2 inch cup | cup scraped out in clay. No nest material. | Nest was made in hole left after blast, has been used 5 years in succession. Birds took little or no notice of men at work, 30 ft below their nest. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Chimney Rock Pass, Utah. | 4/9/1933 | 5/3 | Sure | Heavy | Natural crevice in rock | Rat dung and pellets | Nest in same site falcons used year before (Chimney Rock), 30 ft up on north side. Ravens contest site. | J.H. | |||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Lehi, UT. | 3/19/1933 | 2/2 | Sure, both birds. | Slight | Hole in bank | Slight depression | No nest material. Pellets in nest. | Nest located in natural crevice in bank of R.G.W. RailRoad cut at Jordan Narrows, 15 ft up from tracks. Judging from number of pellets in and around nest, site had been used as roost all winter. | J.H. | ||
Great Horned Owl / Western Pallid Horned Owl | Bubo virginanus pallescens | Cedar Valley, UT. | 3/22/1933 | 3/3 | Sure. Bird flushed. | Heavy | Shallow hole in cliff | Slight depression | Rat dung and a few pellets. | In cliff 30 ft up (north end of Lake Mt.) snow on ground and in crevice to within a few inches of nest. | J.H. | ||
Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia / Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea | 4/30/1936 | 3/6 | Bird | Fresh | 4 ft burrow | Horse manure | Abandoned badger hole | J.H. | ||||
Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia / Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea | Lehi, UT. West of town near river bridge. | 5/1/1934 | 1/9 | Birds at nest | Several stages | 10 inch pot hole at end of burrow | Lined with horse dung | Hole 10 ft long 2 ft deep 'old badger hole' in clay bank near river. | oh. and J.H. | |||
California or Western Cuckoo | California Cuckoo eggs | Coccyzus americanus occidentalis | Lehi, UT. | 6/28/1936 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | all stages | 7 in across | Reconstructed Robin nest | In half dead poplar tree 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black-chinned Hummingbird | Archilochus alexandri | Near mouth of Alpine Canyon | 6/11/1935 | 2 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 7-8 by 3-4 unfinished | Cottonwood cotton, willowblossom, and cobwebbs. | Nest in mapletree ten ft from ground. 20 ft from stream, bird very excited | Harold C. Hutchings | |||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | Alpine, UT. Near school house spring | 7/2/1934 | 2 | Bird with nest | Heavy | one inch | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss and a few feathers covered with moss-lichens and bits of fine bark. woven in with cobwebb. | Nest on limb of dead quaking aspen near spring. | |||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | American Fork Canyon | 6/12/1934 | 2 | Bird on nest | Light | 3-4 inches | 3-4 inches | Plant down covered with moss lichens and cobweb. | Found near mutual dell. in Choke Cherry tree at end of dead limb hanging over stream. | H. | ||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | American Fork Canyon | 8/1/1932 | Bird | 7-8 inches | 3-4 inches | Soft tree cotton lichens and cobweb. I watched fight with squirrel which finally robbed the nest. | On dead willow overhanging stream near south dugway. | H. | ||||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 6/20/1933 | 2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7-8 inches | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss wound with cobweb | Apple tree on slender limb 3 ft from ground. | H. | ||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 7/30/1934 | 2 | Bird on nest | One hatched while bring home | 3-4 inches | 7-8 inches | Cottonwood and sycamore floss covered with bits of bark, cobweb, and lichens. | H. | |||
Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Lehi, UT | 6/21/1932 | 2 | bird near nest | Light | 3-4 inches | 3-4 inches | Cottonwood floss, lichens, bits of wood from pole fence. built over last year. | In apple tree near end of limb 5 ft from ground. | Hutch | ||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | West of Lehi, UT. On road to Mosida. | 6/28/1932 | 1/4 | bird at nest | 3 1/2 cup 4 1/2 outside | Srring, grass, and wool. | Nest in crossarm hole of telephone pole 25 ft up. nest metal hung out and down pole 6 to 8 inches. | G. H. | ||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | bone farm, north of Lehi, UT. | 6/25/1936 | 5/3 | bird at nest | Slight | Grass, Rags and wool. | Nest on crossarm of electric power pole, sheltered by insulator. | G. H. | ||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Pelican Point in utah county, Utah. | 6/26/1933 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 4 inches 5 1/2 over all | 1 1/2 inches | Weed stalks and wool | In half dead cottonwood tree near house. | J. H. | ||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | "Bull River" north of Lehi, UT | 6/29/1933 | 3/3 | Birds at nest | Slight | Usual | In half dead poplar tree 25 ft from ground. | |||||
King Bird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Bone farm at point of Mt. Lehi, UT. | 6/20/1936 | 4/5 | Bird at nest | Usual | String, weed stalks and wool. | Nest under wheel(grass) of windwill 30 ft up. | J.H. | ||||
Arkansas Kingbird | Arkansas Kingbird Eggs | Tyrannus verticalis | Saratoga Springs Lehi, Utah. | 4/16/1934 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 3 1/2 cup 5 overall | 1 1/4 | rags (part of old flag), string, weed stalks and wool. very well made but bulky. | In forks of old dead ash tree 20 ft up. Oriole nest in same tree on living limb. | J.H. | |
Say's phoebe | Say's Phoebe eggs | Sayornis saya | Delmonte Rush Valley, Utah. | 7/8/1931 | 1/5 | bird on nest | fresh | 3 1/4 cup 6 overall | 1 1/2 | a few bits of tumbleweed, mostly wool, well covered with cobwebs. | Nest on old railroad lie up ed as beam in cellar under old deserted house. | J.H. | |
Western Flycatcher | Empidonax difficilis difficilis | American Fork Canyon, UT. South dugway | 6/26/1933 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 in 5 in overall | 3/4 in | Weed stems, fine bark stripes, and moss. held together with spiderweb and cocoons. | On a little rock shelf under large rock under high bank of creek. 2 ft from surface of water. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/29/1933 | 3-4 | Sure | Fresh | 3 by 3 1/2 outside 2 by 1/2 cup | Fine grasses, milkweed fibers, and hair. cobweb used on outside. beautifully constructed. | In dwarf willows bordering marsh, 6 1/2 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/30/1933 | 6-4 | Sure | Fresh | 3 1/2 by 4 outside | 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 inside | grasses, fibers, and hair. | Wild rose thicket. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/30/1933 | 5-3 | Bird on nest | Heavy | 3 by 3 3/4 outside | 2 1/4 by 1 3/4 | Fine grasses, milkweed fiber, lined with hair and fine rootlets. | Dwarf willows bordering marsh 8 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Trail's Flycatcher | Empidonax trailli | Lehi, UT. | 6/29/1933 | 4/4 | Sure, Bird on nest. | Fresh | 3 3/4 by 4 outside | cup 2 1/2 by 2 1/4 | Fine bark, grasses and plant fibers. | In dense wild rose thicket. | J.H. | ||
Desert Horned Lark | Desert Horned Lark eggs | Otocoris alpestris alpestris | Foothill north end of lake Mt. Cedar valley. | 4/25/1935 | 2/3 | Bird leaving nest. | Fresh | 3 1/2 cup. 4 1/2 overall | 3/4 | Fine grasses, a few horse hairs. | Nest at the side of a boulder, on grassy ridge, several nests in locality. | J.H. and H.C.H. | |
Desert Horned Lark | Otocoris alpestris alpestris | Foothill, Lake Mt. Cedar valley, Utah. | 7/1/1935 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Slight | 3 in 4 1/2 in overall | 3/4 in | Fine cheatgrass lined with finer bits of same nest. | Nest on ground under small sagebrush, on rocky ridge. | J.H. | ||
Magpie | Magpie eggs | Pica pica hudsonia | Dry Creek, North of town. Lehi, Utah. | 3/30/1931 | 1/6 | Bird | Fresh | 10 in inside 17 in outside | 3 ft top to bottom | Outside sticks, inside good coat of mud lined with grass, hair, rootlets and hair. | In Haw tree (Hawthorn), 12 ft from ground, bulky structure well built, well protected by thorns. | J.H. | |
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | Evans Farm - West of town Lehi, UT. | 7/3/1932 | 3/8 | sure | Fresh | 8 in cup 2 ft outside | 2 feet | Stick, cup made of mud. Poorly lined with rootlets, grass, and few stripes of rag. | In black willow tree 30 ft from ground. Poorly constructed. Sparrow hawk nest in woodpecker hole about 10 ft under. | J.H. | ||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | North of town, Dry Creek. Lehi, Utah. | 4/10/1933 | 4 | Sure | Blood | 9 in cup 3 1/2 ft length of nest | Sticks, cup of mud, will lined with coarse grass and rootlets, some horse hair. | Nest in thorn tree, 10 ft from ground, tree full of sticks - several years accumulation. | J.H. | |||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | New Survey, West of Lehi, UT. | 4/20/1933 | 5/9 | Sure | Reoccurrence of blood | 8 in cup 2 ft outside | Sticks, mud cup well lined with grasses and horse hair. | Nest in lone thorn tree, 12 ft from ground, second time nest has been noted this year. | J.H. | |||
Magpie | Pica pica hudsonia | West of town, Lehi UT | 5/10/1934 | 6/8 | Sure | 8 in cup 2 ft | Sticks, cup of mud well lined with grass and rootlets. | Nest in top of willow and wild rose clump, well protected. | J.H. | ||||
Woodhouse's Jay | Woodhouse's Jay eggs | Aphelocoma woodhousei | Tickville, Utah. (West of Lehi, UT) | 5/10/1940 | 4/7 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 in by 4 in outside | cup 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 | Sticks as foundation and side walls. Cup - cedar bark, grass and wool. | In small, very compact, cedar in bottom of gulch. nest placed near main trunk of tree, very hard to see. | ||
Woodhouse's Jay | Aphelocoma woodhousei | Tickville, West of Lehi, Ut. | 5/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Bone forming | 8 in by 4 in usual | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Foundation of sticks, lined with cedar bark, grass and wool. | In very compact cedar tree in bottom of gulch. four other nests in locality with newly hatched birds. each 4 birds. | |||
Raven | Raven eggs | Corvus corax sinuatus | Mountain south of 5 mile pass, Cedar Valley, Utah. | 4/6/1941 | 5 | Birds | Heavy | 3 ft overall | cup 11 in by 4 in | few sticks, wool and cedar bark. Snow all around and behind nest. Several inches deep, but interior of nest dry and warm. | directly under eagles nest 20 ft ( in ledge). | ||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | North end of Rush Valley, Utah. | 4/7/1933 | 4/6 | Sure, Birds. | Fresh | usual | Sticks, small cedar sprays and wool. | Nest found in ledge about 20 ft high in the north end of rush valley, south of 5 mile pass. | J.H. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 5 mile pass between Cedar and Rush valley, Utah. | 3/30/1933 | 3/8 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Built up 14 in. 8 in cup | 5 in | Sticks, cedar bark and wool. | Nest located on timber under railroad bridge about 30 ft high. Very hard to get at because of the steel cover on bridge. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Range, South of 5 mile pass. Utah County | 4/28/1939 | 7 | Birds very active in air. | Heavy | 3 ft by 3 ft very bulky | 12 in by 4 in | Pine sticks, cedar bark and wool. | In ledge. Notch and nest well concealed from below, but only 10 ft from foot of cliff. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 5 mile pass, Cedar valley | 4/28/1939 | 6 | Birds out on nest, other sitting on railroad track along nest. | Fresh | 2 ft overall 14 inches deep | cup 4 1/2 in by 10 in | Small sage brush and wool. | Nest laid on cross tie under railroad track spanning 5 mile wash. 30 ft above stream bed. nest had been destroyed 15 days before by railroad track men. 3 eggs were destroyed at that time. eggs of this set record small. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | 1 1/2 miles South of 5 mile pass on range between Cedar and Rush valley | 4/14/1939 | 6 | Bird on nest. Mate in air. | Fresh | 20 in across 12 in deep | cup 5 by 12 | Sticks of pinion pine, cedar bark and wool. Exceptionally well made. | Notch in rock. Almost to full of nest to permit birds. Every north and exposure about in center of 60 ft cleft. Eagle nest 45 ft south of great horned owl, 2 eggs 20 ft below. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Lake Mt. Eastside | 5/7/1940 | 6 | Birds at nest | Heavy | 30 in overall 2 ft deep | cup 4 in by 12 in | Large sticks, brush, cedar bark, cup of wool. | Nest in old eagle nest in ledge, 50 ft from top of ledge, 20 ft from base. Very difficult to get at. P. Falcon in same ledge 100 ft South. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Cedar Valley, Ut. | 4/16/1941 | 6 | Birds at nest | Fresh | 20 in by 2 ft 8 in deep | cup 4 1/4 in by 11 in | Sticks, mostly sage brush, lined wall wool, rabbit bones. | In old house. nest built on rafters. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | West of Della utah | 4/16/1938 | 6 | birds | Fresh | 4 ft overall 12 in cup | 18 in with 5 in deep cup | Sage brush, shadscale and cottonwood twigs lined with bark and wool. | In tall cottonwood tree 32 ft from ground. Only tree in a radius of 3 miles. | J.H. | ||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | Cedar valley, UT. | 4/15/1937 | 5 | Birds | Light | 10 in cup across 23 in overall | 5 in deep cup | Mostly wool, a few sage sticks on outer edge. To hold nest in notch in the rock. | About 10 ft up in ledge south side of five mile pass. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax sinuatus | West side Utah valley | 3/21/1938 | 4 | Birds at nest | Fresh | cup 12 in 18 overall | 5 1/2 in cup | Sticks and wool - very compact. Great horned owl nesting around point of rock not 20 ft away. 3 eggs. | In rock crevice in ledge, South side 7 mile pass between Utah and Cedar valley. | |||
Raven | Corvus corax | 4/14/1940 | 6 | cup inside 11 in by 5 in outside 4 ft. | Composed of sage and cedar sticks, lined with cedar bark and deer hair. | In cliff about 35 ft up, nest built in crevice of rock. Took falcon eggs from same place last year. Canopy of sticks about nest, heap of sticks below. | |||||||
Pinyon Jay | Pinyon Jay eggs | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, west of lehi, UT. | 5/20/1939 | 5 | Bird on nest | Bone forming | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 3 in | Sticks. Outside very bulky but neat. Lined with grass, cedar bark and rootlets. | In Pinion pine 8 ft from ground. Saddled on ??? limb bird unafraid. 17 nests in this colony all with young on this date except this one. | ||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Clay Canyon, Utah. East of Sunshine. | 5/10/1939 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 9 in by 3 1/2 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 in | Small sticks, bulky, bird - neat. Lined with cedar bark and wool. | In cedar tree 5 ft up, tree near bottom of canyon, 5 nests in groups. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, UT. (west of Lehi, UT.) | 5/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Sticks lined with bark stripes and wool. | Many nests with young in locality. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Tickville, Utah. | 5/14/1940 | 5 | Bird on nest | fresh | 8 in by 4 in | cup 4 in by 2 1/2 in | Sticks outside lined with cedar bark and wool. | In Pinion tree - saddled on hog limb 6 ft from ground - tree near bottom of canyon. | |||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Cedar flat on west slope of Lake Mt. above claybed. | 4/9/1933 | 8/4 | Bird flushed | Fresh | 8 1/2 in | 4 in cup | Twigs, rootlets, bark, and wool. | Cedar tree 5 ft from ground on limb near outer edge of tree. | J.H. | ||
Pinyon Jay | Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Cedar flat on west slope of Lake Mt. Cedar valley, UT. | 4/9/1933 | 7/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh of blood | 8 1/2 in - 5 in cup | 4 in | Twigs, rootlets, bark, and wool. | In old cedar, 3 old nests. appearance of a succession of nests by same bird. | J.H. | ||
Yellow Headed Blackbird | Yellow Headed BlackBird eggs | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | |||||||||||
Yellow Headed Blackbird | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | ||||||||||||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | ||||||||||||
Red Winged Blackbird | Red Winged Blackbird eggs | Agelaius phoeniceus | Clark Farm. Lehi, UT. | 6/23/1933 | 6/5 | Sure | Fresh | usual | Almost entirely of grass rootlets that had been uprooted by cultivator. | In water grass, around margin of field 10 in from ground. | J.H. | ||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | West of town. Lehi, Ut. | 6/12/1931 | 4/4. 1 cowbird | Sure | Fresh | usual | Grass stalks and milkweed fiber. | Wild rose bush, 4 ft from ground. Cowbird egg in set. eggs covered with egg yolk and stuck to bottom of nest. | J.H. | |||
Red Winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | Bullrush marsh, Utah lake. Above Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1931 | 3/5 | Sure | Fresh | usual | Rushes, lined with fine water grass and horse hair. | Attached to dry rushes, 3 ft above water. | J.H. | |||
Bullock's Oriole | Oriole eggs | Icterus bullockii | College home west of Lehi, Ut. | 6/13/1931 | 1/4 | Birds at nest | Slight | 5 by 8 | Milkweed fibers, horse hairs, and twine string. Nest almost white. | In top of silver cottonwood tree, 40 ft from ground, birds had nested in same tree for years. Built another nest and raised brood after this was taken. | J.H. | ||
Bullock's Oriole | Icterus bullockii | Bull River, North of Lehi | 6/26/1936 | 2/4 | Birds at nest | Fresh | 4 1/2 in by 7 in | Almost entirely of black horse hair. A few strips of milkweed fiber. | The nest was hung out on the end of a slender limb high in the tree (black willow), it was necessary to cut the limb and let it to the ground with a roap (old fashion word for rope). We located 10 oriole nests in same locality. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Brewers Blackbird eggs | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Bull River Lehi, UT | 6/6/1933 | 5/6 | Sure | usual | grass and weed stems, over old robin nest. | In ground up black willow stump 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | New Surray. Lehi, UT. "Grandpa" | 5/20/1931 | 1/6 | Sure | Heavy | 4 in cup 6 in outside | 3 in cup | grass and plant fiber | In grown up black willow stump at edge of beet field, 6 ft from ground. | J.H. and Tom. | ||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Willow patch West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/23/1931 | 2/5 | Sure | Slight | usual | grass and plant fiber, well lined horse hair. | In wild rose bush, 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewers Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Near Utah Lake, Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1934 | 6/6 | Bird on nest | Slight | 4 in cup 6 in overall | 3 in | Grass | Nest in animal track in salt grass pasture. Nest almost level with ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Evening Grosbeak | Western Evening Grosbeak eggs | Coccothraustes vespertinus / Hesperiphona vesperina montana | Salem, UT. | 5/27/1936 | 3 | "Sure" both birds at nest. | Fresh | 6 in outside 3 1/4 in inside | 2 inches | Fine twigs and rootlets. Asparagus fern outside. Loosely but very well constructed. Lace like inside. | In oak 12 ft from ground. | Gibone and Arra Wind. | |
Goldfinch | Gold Finch eggs | Spinus tristis | Found at Saratoga. | 7/4/1936 | 4 | Bird near nest | Nest constructed of grass and bark stripes compactly put together. Lined with horse hair. Plant down was also used in the construction. The nest was completely hid from view until the leaves were parted and then there it was in full view, containing 4 pale, blueish white eggs, unmarked. | In the undergrowth of a box elder about 3 ft from the ground. Female near the nest. Very nervous. Would fly from tree to tree, then fly to small plants and grasses near the ground. Which bowed nearly to the earth with its weight. But still it would cling there and sway back and forth, chirping as it did, until it had to shift positions and then it would fly to another tree and then back near the nest. | J.H. | ||||
Goldfinch | Spinus tristis | Saratoga | 7/4/1936 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 4 in across | 2 in | Grass, Bark stripes, Plant down. | In undergrowth of boxelder. | J.H. | ||
Pine Siskin | Pine Siskin eggs | Spinus pinus | Home. Lehi, UT. | 11/21/1922 | 1/2 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 4 in overall cup 1 3/4 in by 1 in | Outer small dry pine twigs woven together with fine wotlets and a little string. Inside lining fine wotlets, horse hair, and soft plant cotton or milkweed. | In evergreen tree in yard, 5 ft from ground, season had been very warm, heavy snow on night of Feb. 22. Almost covered bird and nest over, but bird stayed with nest, fluttering the snow away with her wings. Eggs chilled and never hatched. | |||
Pine Siskin | Spinus pinus | Lehi, UT. | 4/25/1936 | 4/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in outside 1 1/2 in cup | 3 1/4 in | Evergreen twigs from 1 in to 4 in long wotlet's string and horsehair. | In evergreen tree in wins park 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Tickville, UT. West of Lehi. | 6/7/1937 | 2-4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in outside | 3/4 in deep 3 in cup | Fine dry cheat grass sage brush leaves. | Nest concealed at bottom of small green sage brush surrounded by tall cheat grass. Almost impossible to see, as nest was submerged. | J.H. | ||
Savannah Sparrow | Savannah Sparrow eggs | Passerculus sandwichensis | West Lehi, Utah. | 6/30/1933 | 1-5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 3 in across | Lined rootlets, grasses, and dead leaves. | Nest on ground well concealed in pea patch. bird felt secure when approached. | J.H. | ||
Western Lark Sparrow | Lark Sparrow eggs | Chondestes grammacus strigatus | Grand Pan. Lehi, Utah. | 7/1/1935 | 5/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 in 4 1/2 in overall | 3/4 in | dry grass, a little hair. | On ground in beet field, well concealed between beet plants. | J.H. | |
Western Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus strigatus | Grand Pa Lehi, UT. | 6/26/1934 | 4/4 | Bird Leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in cup | 1/2 in deep | Very little material used. fine weed and grass. | At side of dry burdock stalk at edge of field. On ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Chipping Sparrow | Chipping Sparrow eggs | Spizella passerina | Lehi, UT. | 7/4/1936 | 2/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7 in by 2 in outside | cup 1 1/4 in deep by 3 in | Of rootlets, grasses and hair - very loosely constructed. | In Plum tree 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | |
Western Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina | Lehi, UT. | 7/1/1938 | 1/4 | Bird | Heavy | 6 in outside 3 in inside | 1 1/4 in | Cheat grass stems, rootlets, string and hair. Loosely constructed. | In plum tree 12 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Clay Colored Sparrow | Clay Colored Sparrow eggs | Spizella pallida | West of Lehi. | 6/13/1934 | 2/4 | ??? | Fresh | 4 in across | 2 in deep | Grasses, bits of bark, and hair. | Tall rabbit bush. | J.H. | |
Brewer's Sparrow | Brewers Sparrow eggs | Spizella Breweri | North end of Cedar valley. Utah. | 5/4/1938 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Dry grass, rootlets, and plant fibers, and hair. | In sage brush 2 ft high. | J.H. | |||
Brewer's Sparrow | Spizella breweri | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/4/1938 | 2/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | usual | dry grasses and rootlets lined with hair. | In sage brush on flat 2 1/2 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Brewer's Sparrow | Spizella breweri | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/4/1938 | 3/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | usual | In rabbit bush, 3 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||||
Clay Colored Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow eggs | Spizella pallida | Cedar valley | 6/13/1934 | 1/4 | ??? | Fresh | 4 in by 2 in deep | Grasses, bark, and hair. | Grease wood bush | |||
Spurred Towhee | Spurred Towhee eggs | Pipilo maculatus montanus | North end, Tickville, Utah. | 5/20/1938 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Outside 8 inches | 3 inches | Sage bark stripes lined with oak leaves, grass and bark. | 6 ft from bottom of ravine on south slope of hill. on ground under scrub oak and sage bush. | ||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Tickville, UT. | 5/20/1938 | 2/3 | Flushed bird from nest | Slight | usual | Sage bark stripes lined nest. | At foot scrub oak near top of hill on northside. | ||||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Tickville, UT. | 6/1/1938 | 3/4 | Bird at nest | Heavy | Sage bark stripes lined with grass oak leaves and bark. | Foot of scrub oak. | |||||
Spurred Towhee | Pipilo maculatus montanus | Foot hills north of Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 1/3 | Bird fussing near nest | Fresh | 4 in 5 1/2 in overall | 1 1/2 in | Dry leaves and grass well lined with fine grass. | Nest on ground in clump of oak bush, well concealed. | J.H. | ||
Green Tailed Towhee | Green-Tailed Towhee eggs | Pipilo chlorurus | "Tickville" West of Lehi, UT. | 5/27/1933 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Weed stems, grasses, fine twigs and rootlets. Dry leaves. | Nest set on root projecting from bark. under overhanging scrub oak. near a spring. | J.H. and H.C.H. | |||
Red Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | Benton Co. Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 5 | 3 inches | 1 inch | fine grass and horse hair. | In small hollow of walnut tree (black). Ten feet from ground. | |||||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Black Headed Grosbeak eggs | Pheucticus melanocephalus / Zamelodia melanocephala | West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/1/1931 | 1/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in overall | shallow cup | Loosely constructed of rootlets, grass and sprays of asparagus. | In dwarf willows, 8 ft up, near creek. | J.H. | |
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | West of town. Lehi, UT. | 5/26/1931 | 2/3 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 6 in overall | Very shallow | Fine sticks and rootlets. | In wild rose and willow thicket, 10 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Olson place. Lehi, UT. | 5/31/1931 | 3/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 in cup 7 in overall | 3/4 in | Rootlets, wild mustard stalks. | Nest in wild plum thicket, overhanging creek 6 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Home. Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1931 | 4/3 one cowbird | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 inches | Shallow | fine weed stems, rootlets and bits of string | On horizontal limb of pear tree, 12 ft from ground. Nest in same tree three years in succession. Birds left nest when cowbird was removed. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Willow patch, west of home. Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1934 | 6/6 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 7 in 3 3/4 in cup | 3/4 in | grasses, rootlets and milkweed fiber. | In wild rose and willow thicket 8 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Black Headed Grosbeak | Zamelodia melanocephala (new name is Pheucticus melanocephalus) | Home | 6/10/1936 | 7/2 One cowbird | Watched bird build nest. | Fresh | 6 1/2 in overall 3 1/2 in cup | 3/4 in | Grass stems, wild mustard and rootlets. | In apple tree, 12 ft from ground, birds left nest when Cowbird egg was removed. | J.H. | ||
Tree Swallow | Tree Swallow eggs | Tachycineta bicolor | Silver Lake Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1938 | 1/5 | Bird at nest | Fresh | 1 1/4 in hole. | Decayed wood | In dead aspen, 12 feet from ground. | |||
Violet Green Swallow | Violet Green Swallow eggs | Tachycineta thalassina | Bird valley, north of Timpanogos, Provo Canyon, Utah. | 6/25/1938 | 1/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Decayed wood, small twigs. | 20 feet up in live aspen - in same tree with purple martin. | ||||
Loggerhead Shrike | Loggerhead Shrike eggs | Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) | North end of Cedar valley, UT. | 5/18/1931 | 1/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 4 in cup 7 in outside | 2 in | thorny sticks and tumbleweed stalks, lined with wool and a little fine grass. Several rabbit bones placed around on tree. | In small compact cedar 5 ft from ground on outer edge of grove. | J.H. | |
Yellow Warbler | Yellow Warbler eggs | Dendroica aestiva (Now is named Setophaga petechia) | Lehi, UT. | 6/21/1931 | 1/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Fine plant fiber, mostly milkweed, lined with hair. | In top of plum tree 20 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Sage Thrasher | Sage Thrasher eggs | Oreoscoptes montanus | Field west of town. Lehi, UT. | 6/4/1932 | 1/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in cup 7 in outside | 4 in | Sticks of greasewood lined with grasses. | In greasewood bush, 4 ft from ground, well concealed. | ||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | River bank west of Lehi, UT. | 6/10/1933 | 2/3 | Bird leaving nest | slight | Usual | rather long twigs of greasewood, tumbleweed, and grasses. Neatly lined with fine grass. | In greasewood bush, 5 ft from ground, 20 ft from river. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Grampa's Pasture west of Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | Usual | Twigs, weed stems, and grass. | In isolated greasewood, 4 ft from ground, very well concealed. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Field west of town, Lehi, Utah. | 6/10/1933 | 4/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 4 in cup 7 in overall | 2 1/2 in cup | Twigs, weed stems and grasses. Some horse hair in lining. | Grease wood bush in fence corner, very well concealed. | |||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | South of road west of Jordan. Lehi, UT. | 6/6/1936 | 8/4 | Bird at nest | Fresh | Usual | Twigs, lined fine grass and horse hair. | In greasewood bush, 18 inches from ground. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | West of Saratoga Springs - Lehi, Utah. | 7/4/1936 | 2/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | Usual | Usual | In thick greasewood patch along wash. | ||||
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | Woofenden Farm. Lehi, UT. West of river. | 6/16/1936 | 9/5 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 8 in overall 3 1/2 in cup | 2 1/2 in | Twigs and weed stems, neatly lined with fine grass. A little wool. | In greasewood bush 2 ft from ground 20 nests found. 10 a patch of greasewood. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Western Mockingbird eggs | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | North West of Woofenden home. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/13/1938 | 4 | 8 1/2 by 4 | cup 4 by 2 3/4 | Greasewood sticks 'base', lined with fine grasses, wool and plant leaves. | Greasewood - 3 ft from ground - usual. Sunshade of sticks. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Little Valley back of pelican point, Utah. | 6/24/1940 | 4 | Birds - Maru birds | Several pairs | 8 1/2 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 3/4 in | Sticks - grass, bits of cedar bark and plant fiber. | Nest in better bush. 3 ft from ground bird undisturbed by my working nearby. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Woofenden Farm. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/20/1940 | 4 | Bird on nest | Observed | 8 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 1/2 in | sticks gathered around yard, some hay lined with bits of bark, string, wool and small bits of rag. | Nest in rosebush 25 feet from house, wonderful singer. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Greasewood patch, north and west of woofenden farm. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/3/1938 | 4 | Birds | Fresh | About - 8 in by 3 1/2 in outside | cup 3 1/2 in by 2 in | Usual, Greasewood foundation with well woven compact, inner lining with fine grasses, wool and soft plant leaves. | In greasewood bush 4 ft from ground. Well made sum shade placed over nest. bird very shy. flyed off nest and flew along ground among bushes for 50 feet. Many sage thrashers in this locality 20 nest located in this 60 acres. Eleven nests found and observed in this group. | |||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. South West of Saratoga Springs. | 6/10/1939 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 8 in by 3 1/2 in | cup 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 in | usual sticks of greasewood with bulky outside and well constructed, well lined cup. (grasses, wool, and plant leaf.) | Usual sunshade several birds in locality, but didn't seem to be nesting. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, Utah. | 5/30/1936 | 4 | Took bird | Fresh | 8 in overall 5 in deep | cup 4 in by 2 3/4 in | Outside rough sticks of greasewood lined with grass, hair, wool, and soft plant fiber, soft leaves from small plant common to locality. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 7/2/1936 | 3/4 | Sure | Light | Usual | Greasewood | J.H. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 5/30/1936 | 1/4 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 10 in overall | 3 1/2 in cup | thorns, grass, rootlets, and soft weed leaf. | In greasewood about 3 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Lehi, UT. | 6/4/1936 | 2/4 | Sure | Fresh | Usual | Greasewood | J.H. | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | Lehi, Utah. | 6/4/1936 | 1/4 | Sure | Heavy | Same as set one | In greasewood bush, 4 ft from ground, about 100 yards from nest #1. | Eunice Hutchings | ||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | South west of woofenden home. West of Lehi, UT. | 6/28/1938 | Birds | Observed | 8 in by 4 in | cup 3 1/2 in - 2 1/2 in | Usual sticks of greasewood, lined with wool, grasses and bits of plant fibers. | |||||
Western Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos leucopterus | West of Woofenden home - west of Lehi, UT. | 1938-06-21 | 4 | Birds | Observed | 8 by 3 | 3 1/2 in by 2 1/2 in | Usual Greasewood stick foundation with neat well woven cup composed of wool grass and soft leaf. | ||||
Rock Wren | Rock Wren eggs | Salpinctes obsoletus | Pelican Point, Utah. | 5/26/1940 | 2/6 | Sure | Fresh | Fine grass and rock | 6 inch hole under a rock along side of track, 2 1/2 ft up. | ||||
Rock Wren | Salpinctes obsoletus | Pelican Point, Utah. | 5/29/1938 | 1/6 | Sure | Fresh | Fine grass and rock. | 2 inch hole in cliff 30 feet up. | |||||
Parkman Wren | Parkman's Wren eggs | Troglodytes aedon parkmani | Silver Lake flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/8/1938 | 4/7 | Sure | Fresh | Porcupine hair | In live aspen tree 8 feet up. | ||||
Parkman Wren | Troglodytes aeden parkmani | American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 6/2/1936 | 2/7 | Sure | Fresh | Small chips and deer hair. | Deserted woodpecker's nest in dead quaking aspen, 12 ft from ground. | |||||
Western Marsh Wren | Western Marsh Wren eggs | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/10/1931 | 1/6 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail downing. | Bull rushes, nest about 3 ft from water. | |||
Western Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/28/1935 | 5/7 | Sure | Heavy | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail downing. | Bull rushes, nest about 3 ft from water. | ||||
Western Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris / Telmatodytes palustris | Lehi, Utah. | 5/10/1936 | 6/6 | Sure | Fresh | 5 inches | Rushes and cat tail dowing. | Bull rushes, Nest about 3 ft from water. | ||||
Nelson Nutchatch | Sitta carolinensis nelsoni | Above Granite Flat. American Fork Canyon. | 6/18/1938 | 1/5 | Fresh | Abandoned woodpecker hole in side of tree, 30 ft up. | J.H. | ||||||
Willow Thrush | Willow Thrush eggs | Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola | South Fork. American Fork Canyon, UT. | 7/24/1931 | 1/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | 5 in overall 3 in cup | 1 3/4 in cup | Strips of soft bark, Dry half rotted leaves, rootlets and some grass. Lined with fine rootlets and grass green moss around edge. | In Dogwood, hanging over creek fully exposed to sun. | J.H. | |
Willow Thrush | Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola | Granite Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1932 | 2/4 | Bird on nest | Slight. Blood. | 3 in cup 5 1/2 in outside | 1 1/2 in. | Strips of quaking aspen bark, fine twigs, and leaves. | In top of dwarfed fir tree, 4 ft from ground fully exposed to sun. eggs bleached. | J.H. | ||
Willow Thrush | Hylocicihla fuscescens salicicola | Silver Lake Flat, American Fork Canyon, Utah. | 7/4/1932 | 3/4 | Bird on nest | Slight | 3 1/4 in by 6 in | Bark strips, moss and dry leaves. Lined with fine grasses and rootlets. | Nest in side of old quaking aspen tree in cavity made by bark pealing off. 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | |||
Olive Back Thrush/ Swainson's Thrush | Olive Back Thrush eggs | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | Silver Lake Flat | 6/24/1932 | 1/3 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 1/2 in by 5 in | 1 1/2 in | Bark strips and grass. Lined with same met. | In Fork of small maple tree in grove. 8 ft up. | J.H. | |
Olive Back Thrush/Swainson's Thrush | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | Hanging Rock, American Fork Canyon. | 7/26/1932 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 3 in cup. 5 in overall. | Bark strips, grass, and rootlets. | Small maple tree in grove near road, 7 ft from ground. Nest in fork of tree. | ||||
Olive Back Thrush/Swainson's Thrush | Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni | North Fork, American Fork Canyon. | 7/6/1935 | 4/4 | bird slipping from nest | Fresh | 3 in cup 5 in overall | Bark strips, dry leaves, grasses, and a few bits of paper. | On top of small tree stump that had growth of branches around end, 5 ft from ground. Just a few feet from campstove. | ||||
Hermit Thrush | Hermit Thrush eggs | Hylocichla guttata pallasi | Tibble Hollow, American Fork Canyon, Utah. (I think he combined pine hollow and Tibble fork together as one place.) | 6/29/1936 | 6/4 | Bird on nest. | Slight | 3 1/2 in cup 5 in overall | 1 1/2 in cup | bark strips, weed stalks. Lined with fine grass and rootlets. | On ridge at head of Tibble hollow in dwarfed evergreen. Very well hid. | J.H. | |
Hermit Thrush | Hylocichla guttata pallasi | American Fork Canyon near Silver Lake | 6/12/1934 | 3/4 | Bird leaving nest. | Slight | 3 1/2 in cup by 5 in | 1 1/2 in cup | Bark strips, small weed stalks, and 20 ft grass. A little dry moss. Tucked in around edge. | In small compact spruce 4 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Robin | Robin eggs | Turdus migratorius / Planesticus migratorius | Lehi, Utah. | 4/4/1932 | 2/5 | Bird on nest | Fresh | Usual | Milkweed fiber, string, a few bits of rag, grass and weed stalks. Lined with mud, grass, and hair. | On lower limbs of evergreen tree near outer-edge, 9 ft from ground. Tree in yard near my home. | J.H. | ||
Western Bluebird | Sialia mexicana occidentalis | West field. Lehi, Utah. | 7/2/1932 | 1/5 | Bird in nest. | Fresh | 4 in | 8 in | Bark strips and feathers. | An old woodpecker hole in black willow tree 5 ft from ground bird dead on nest. | |||
Bluebird | Sialia | Knot hole in wall of cereal mill, Lehi, Utah. | 7/3/1933 | 2/6 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | 2 in hole | 6 in | Feathers, few bits of rag, and grass. | Nest between sheeting of wall of cereal mill, 20 ft from ground. | J.H. | ||
Bluebird | Sialia | Mouth of West Canyon, Cedar valley, Utah. | 5/16/1936 | 3/6 | Bird leaving nest | Fresh | hole 2 ft deep | Soft bark strips and grass. | hole in high bank of creek, several nests in same locality. | J.H. | |||
Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | North end of Cedar valley, Utah. | 5/16/1936 | 6 | Sure | Fresh | few grasses, bark, and feathers. | In small hole, the bank of 30 ft wash. Nest in 30 inches. | J.H. | ||||
Sparrow | Tickville, UT. | 5/30/1938 | 1/4 | Fresh | 2 1/4 in inside | 1 1/2 in | Dry grasses, films, hair, and a few feathers. | Top of Sage brush 30 ft high. Bird much smaller then previous | J.H. | ||||
Blue Jay | Blue Jay eggs | Cyanocitta cristata | Benton County Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 4 | 4 inches | 2 inches | Small sticks, mud, grass and paper. | 8 ft from ground, On south side of spanish oak tree. | ||||
Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata | Benton County, Miss. | 5/10/1934 | 3 | Fresh | 4 inches | 2 inches | Small sticks, grass and paper. | 30 ft up in the crotch of spanish oak tree. Near swamp. | ||||
Idaho Screech | Can not identify ( could be the Western Screech-Owl - Megascops kennicottii) | American Fork Canyon near Mutual Dell. | 6/3/1934 | 1/3 | Caught bird in nest | Fresh | Opening 2 1/2 in | 10 in | no nesting material, except wings of small bird eaten by owls. | Nest in live quaking aspen, 16 inches in dim, 12 ft from ground. Bird unlike any other owl I have ever seen, Dark brown eyes, Bird 6 7/8 in long. 15 in wingspread. | |||
Junco | Junco eggs | Junco hyemalis | Silver lake Flat, American Fork canyon. | 7/4/1937 | 4, two broken. | Heavy | 3 inches | 3/4 inch | dry grass and rootlets. | At foot of aspen tree, nest level with ground, bird unwilling to leave nest. | J.H. | ||
Gray Headed Junco | Junco phaeonotus caniceps | Divide between American Fork and Provo Canyon, Utah. | 6/25/1938 | 1/4 | Fresh | Grass and weed stacks. | On ground at foot of aspen, well concealed by grass. | ||||||
Crow | Corvus | Dry Creek. Utah. | 1940-04-16 | Saw pair of Crows | By old Kirkham place to try possible nesting pair. |