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May 29, 1932
solid carpets yards across while the prize of the day was an airy lupine of some 18 inches with bicolored spikes. The lower flowers were clear primrose yellow standards & paler keels the base of which were pale blue & pink. The upper was a soft blue. It made a very showy combination.
Just before reaching Wells we found a juniper covered flat which evidently had been a wintering ground for rabbits. They had dined by the thousand judging by remains still present & had chew branches up to a quarter of an inch in diameter from all the junipers. Often barking the limbs up to four feet from the ground. Never saw such rabbit work anywhere. A large majority of the junipers had been entirely denuded of foliage up to 4 feet.
Visited Mr. Hill a community leader about eight miles north west of Wells - reports hard winter or early warm spell followed by severe weather as having killed most of squirrels. Found them to be very scarce.
[[underlined]] Birds [[/underlined]]
[[check mark]] [[underlined]] Prairie Falcon [[/underlined]] several, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Rettail C [[/underlined]], [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Sparrow Hawk [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Killdeer [[/underlined]] 3, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Golden eagle [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Raven [[/underlined]] C, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Magpie [[/underlined]] sev, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Brewer Blackbird [[/underlined]] (C), [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Red Wing [[/underlined]] sev, including one family of barely fledged young, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Meadowlark [[/underlined]] sev, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Horned Lark [[/underlined]] C, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Cliff Swallow [[/underlined]] C, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Barn Swallow [[/underlined]] sev, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Canyon Wren [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Rock Wren  [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Savannah Sparrow [[/underlined]] 2, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Brewer Sp [[/underlined]] sev, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Sage Sp [[/underlined]] two or three, [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Sage Thrasher [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Shrike [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Linnet [[/underlined]] C, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Yellow Warbler [[/underlined]] 1, [[check mark]][[underlined]] Pine Siskin [[/underlined]] Several at Rock, [[check mark]] [[underlined]] Bullock Oriole [[/underlined]] 2.

Arrive Wells 5:00 pm.