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A Dixon
1948
Parus inornatus
Nov 30 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
Clear, cold morning, 8:30 AM (1/2 hr. after sunrise)
Heard titmouse singing "Peter Peth" song from
poplar(ornamental) on SW corner of Bancroft &
Piedmont streets. Bird apparently alone ( no
answering calls).
Dec 10. Heard same bird singing at 8:45 AM (spewich
song). Bird had sung at 8:05 (time of Sunrise)
yesterday AM in same locality.
Dec 13. 8:30AM rainy morning. Heard song in same area
two notes "sweet sweet" and then a single
note (the same) alternated.
Dec 17. Song heard momentarily at 8:30 AM - same as
noted above.
Dec 18. Clear morning - 8:15 - titmouse giving sicaloe
calls from Arancania tree at NW corner (Piedmont
& Bancroft). Bird apparently alone again, called
more vigorously at my crude imitation of whistled
song, dropped lower in tree and did pendulum
in the dim light from
peering at me from directly overhead. Bird
then flew over to adjacent tree. Two Regulus
calendula present.
9:00 AM - titmouse on telephone wire 50 yds
W (near nest tree 1948) singing "Spewich Spewid"
Bird flew to Redwood on S side of Bancroft,
still alone.
I departed from Berkeley this date and so
couldnt follow this case further.