KDixon 1951 Parus atricristatus Apr. 13 Sabins Ranch, 5mi.N Kerrville, Kerr Co., Texas In this clearing, a "bench" between the edge of the hill and the creek, cart 15 ft deeper. The trees had been burned off in this field 50 yds wide. When I was about 125 yds S of the tributary I heard a scolding vet vet vet from oak to W and saw a bird there. No flew E to a juniper on the bank of the creek and sang softly peer peer peer from there. Within about 15 seconds his mate called net vet from oak from which he had flown. She flew to join him & both moved E at 11:07 WIND STRONGER AFTER a calm hour I crossed creek and tried to follow but they moved N & I lost them in vicinity of the only juniper on the W bank at 11:13. Darker N -- at 11:20 drove I left at 10:55 singing E of stocktrail & N of tributary - exchange of song with bird to SE - I believe this may be the bird from S along the creek. I stalked the singer tur tur tur over & over, seemed to be alone. I shottered him with a ducl .38 load; he flew : N into another Spanish oak, then resumed song - I waited and shot him with a .410 but looked in vain for the corpus - I did not see him fall & presume the load was too weak to kill. I started S at 11:45. A few minutes later I approached the same juniper tree & heard calls, one bird in sycamore trees on stream and song peer peer peer from E. Bird in sycamore moved into juniper next to S and I watched it, then turned to watch two other Atrice upstream in a third juniper (lower on bank) one of those sang while the other flew to Spanish oak 15 ft NW