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KDixon
1951
Parus atricristatus
Feb 28. Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge
possible third pair but encountered more in 50 yards.
WIND BLOWING STRONGLY FROM SOUTH; CLEAR.
9:20 - W pair foraging in ebony SE of where they were at 9:10.
call note set given frequently - once see set as a
Green Jay flew by (recognized as an enemy? or bird started
by movement?) Birds still worked on Tillandsia quite a bit.
(latter hangs in "bunches" 12-18" long)
9:28 both started
N in mesquite toward house. By 9:31 in mesquite at
S end of house; 9:33 one flew E to ebony or drive, 9:34
see set up as one chase the other along a twig - sprouting
limb; latter flew 15 feet W to leafless tree & foraged.
Meanwhile no calls from pair toward coral.
9:38 call see set up from E of drive & W of coral.
Tutornae I was watching flew W over house to legume
tree there. 10:40 I thought one flew E, then saw pair in
mesquite SW
See sunit suit from south of house in stories at
9:43 (second pair here) and third pair to E of house
100 ft NE of second pair(?) During the next 6 minutes I
was not able to find any twice E of drive & W of coral - couldn't
intree from [Carolina Wren]
find any bird which any treet treet came? At 9:55 a
pair of Ttwice in smooth barked tree SE of house (near duck
pen) - they flew N W over house into ebony here - I walked
all along W side of house & found nothing. Then at 10:02
totrnose at wedge of grove & another in "second moss - covered
tree" 10:06 - 2 in tree where first had been, none in "moss
covered". 10:07 - pair 70 feet S of moss covered in ebony
[=tree "8" #6]
map, p. 15