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Parus bicolor
Feb 5 15 mi. W Baalup
to north with rather skillful maneuvering I
thought, whether bird captured with or not I couldn't
see. He came to perch in lone elm N of grave ~30yd
and I took him (6798').
I began walking in a SE direction cutting thru
elms to thin mesquite patch. There I sighted a
Titmouse in a mesquite and saw another in a Berberis.
The latter picked at a leaf once. The pair worked NE
and one foraged in a clump of green-stemmed thorn
(in plant or ground?) By the time I had maneuvered
around to SE of them, the birds had moved on into
the dense elms to NE. I approached and watched
their foraging, recording motions on another sheet.
The two seemed to keep in close touch, giving only faint
notes occasionally. Foraging seemed to be in upper
branches of elms although I saw one bird hitch
up a trunk apparently by use of feet and wings only.
It progressed upward perhaps 3 feet in this fashion.
I left these birds and moved due N to dam at 9:10.
No Titmouse activity detected.
I took a stroll upstream and back to dam 9:20-9:30
finding no Titmice. I then proceeded S conditionally
and located Titmice foraging in the elms again. Occasionally
one gave a note pee-cheey softly but I wasn't sure it
was the same one each time. One had a tail bent to its
own right but this couldn't always be detected to
mark the bird. The pair moved W across mesquites into