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Feb 28 Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge
same direction keeping ahead of me. Their notes see
see see sounded plaintive and slightly more melodious
than those of other birds I had heard here; they reminded
me of Mountain Chickadee notes. I walked NW and came
to a shallow streambed at 12:20. Underbrush was not
the tangle of vines that the level surrounding had. The
old river bed is about 50 ft wide and had ebony, "whitebark" and
some sort of palo verde tree -- others too! One titmouse foraged
in terminal twigbery of ebony branch see see, thus at 12:32.
a minute later both in rhannaceous (?) tree 40 ft E. In this tree
the titmice foraged on leaves & twigs of peripheral foliage where
an Orange-crested Warbler had been working earlier. One
got an extra loud sip as I looked up and seemed to
be flying away from his mate's position -- courtship feeding?
Once a titmouse flitted out to pick an insect (?) off a leaf
& returned to his perch to swallow it. The birds worked
in the upper (= green, leafy) part of this tree, then moved to
next (same kind) at 12:43, not pausing in Spanish moss.
In taller leafless tree E at 12:45 flying 5 two minutes
later (my movement or Green Jay flight past tree?) Birds foraging
in leafless tangle on S bank at 12:50. I walked E along
riverbed & found that its north bank met road in trees in
which pair of titmice had foraged at 1:15 on Feb 27 -- south pair
of casual dispute. Perhaps these were the same individuals.
1:00 - Titmice foraging in tree W of one where I had food tray.
One bird in 5 minutes: Spanish moss 10, trunk bark 2, stump 1 (the ?)
By 1:07, both were in the next tree N