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Apr. 13 Sabina Ranch
Song exchange continued until 9:17 -- bird on slope continued peer -- -- and bird on flat gave vet vet vet, This exchange continued until 9:30 when I took the bird on the slope.
It had been singing almost continuously, the bird along the creek answering intermittently. However the latter sang peta-peta
peta-peta 9:33-34.
Titmouse singing in area S of men's barnd and E of field at
9:40 At 9:45 I found one in juniper clump there -- it gave call
redeck redeck and widich widich widich
grating calls -- bird hopped about in junipers
WIND STRONGER again Caroline Chickadee singing in same trees Titmouse silent by 9:49 but gave a "redeck"
call at 9:53 from same juniper clump.
At 9:55 song cheer -- -- from upstream bird
in juniper answered immediately, Tur -- -- -- --
a dozen syllables per song -- another Titmouse seemed to be calling
as he sang 9:56 singer in Spanish oak NE song from
upstream faint -- chickadee cut as he sang
I flew back & then pounded like a battle into the
juniper clump see see vuk dut and det det det
gurgling call of P. carolinensis and sure to see song of
that bird. Cause of contention I could not see butamise
vehement -- I took one bird after singing chickadee had
moved E and waited for the second to come into view. Aftermy
first shot, silence prevailed for a minute or so then it
began to sing peer peer peer and chickadee called
to E After several minutes I shot the o