Field notes, v4149
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FAP 1961 Calyptr anna March 25 Berkeley, California Male singing and behaving territorially using upper twigs of Bumma ilicifolia trees overlooking a hillside garden area. Not present earlier -- at least not regularly. April 15 In past three weeks, a male anna present in the area, singing and driving away intruders and behaving territorially, but not present regularly. Evidently this male has a permanent station at some neighboring site and visits here only occasionally. [In past years, the same spot has been used as a permanent base by both anna and alleni, usually the former.] Today the male, at the close of a series of dead over, pear trees, and moving directly from the end-point of a T-drive, glided in a circle of about 50-foot diameter coming back to the endpoint without stopping and remaining poised a moment [as he did at the end of the drive prior to making the circle]. The route was re-followed, but this time the male stopped at the other side momentarily, then came around half-circle again to the beginning