Field notes, v601
Page 363
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Mch 30 Spring Creek Sunny morning, 42F at 7:00 am. I drove to Spring Creek, reach- ing the area before 7:30. Titmouse singing in oaks upstream from road crossing in area where I had shot at titmouse which I followed 8:20 - 9:30. I followed the bird as it sang peta peta (answered by titmouse to NE) This individual was wary, keeping well ahead of me - once it moved into big live oak from mesquite thicket and called vet vet vet (a scold?) Then song resumed - only one voice involved. I collected this bird (514) as it moved through a clump of postoaks using a half load at 7:43. For the next 15 minutes I walk- ed along the creek bank, in and out among the oaks watching and listening all the way to the oil pipeline (where bird had gone yesterday) This eastern boundary was only a few yards from the point where I took a pair of thrice yesterday. The bird ranged nearly 1/4 mile along the creek. I think it was unusual for it sang continually and from the condition of the 2 taken yesterday, I doubt if any of these thrice are nesting yet. I walked north into area occupied by the other titmouse at 8:05 - silence as I wrote notes within area until 8:17. I wacked on, back and forth through the area until 8:35. By this time, WIND FROM SOUTH 3-4 mph. I returned to the car and drove E 0.6 miles to another branch of the creek, lined with liveoaks openly spaced. I started walking N of the road and NW side of creek. I heard first a mockingbird singing peta peta, then definitely a titmouse. The bird was singing from a postoak in a sparsely-wooded area E of the creek & north of the road. Apparently the brush had