Some Winter Notes from the Bitter Root Valley, Montana
Some Winter Notes From the Bitter Root Valley, Montana.
On December 26, 1912, I saw a Townsend Solitaire (Myadestes townnsendi) eating the berries from a red cedar. It was very tame, allowing me to approach within twenty feet before leaving, then onlv flying a little way. A few minutes later on the same day, I flushed a Long-billed Marsh Wren from a cattail swamp. Within a hundred yards of the wren were some Red-winged Blackbirds.
This is the warmest valley in Montana, so we have here birds which usually winter farther south. Western Meadowlarks winter here abundantly. Mallards and Killdeer are always fairly common, Wilson Snipe are regular winter visitants, and Golden-eyes are rare winter visitors, ariiving in the valley about January 1, and leaving about March 1. A Mourning Dove was seen two miles southwest of Corvallis during December, 1912.
