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[[circled]] 29 [[/circled]]

[[margin in green]] 67 [[/margin]]

to find single [[green checkmark]] BCBT and single Red [[green checkmark]] Woodpecker in same tree.  I.E. the two birds have been moving together in same direction. (This woodpecker must be the other sex from the one seen on previous days - there is red in its moustache.) Then I realize that there are quite a number of other bids around in the same general area.  

[[margin in red]] Cy [[/margin]]
[[margin in green]] 71 72 73 74 [[/margin]]

At least 1 other [[2 blue 1 pencil 2 green checkmarks]] BCBT (and probably 2), 1 [[1 pencil 1 blue 1 green checkmarks]] [[circled]] 4 [[/circled]]  tree-creeper, 1 [[1 green 1 pencil 1 blue checkmark]] [[underlined]] cyanocephala [[/underlined]] [[circled]] 5 [[/circled]].  There also is a Cy [[1 green 1 blue 1 pencil checkmark]] [[circled]] 6 [[/circled]]  singing somewhere nearby.  And I catch one glimpse of a [[circled]] 7 [[/circled]] [[1 pencil 1 blue 1 green checkmark]] PL Atlapetes.  Then a glimpse of a [[1 green 1 pencil checkmark]] [[circled]] 8 [[/circled]]  WM Atlapetes, 60 ft away from the PL.  This seems to be real mixed flock.  [[underlined]] But very diffuse and scattered [[/underlined]] (area includes scattered tall & medium sized trees sand lots of scrub, both under trees and in the open.) Lots of miscellaneous coming and going.  Difficult to tell who is doing what and to whom.  But I did the following.  Once BCBT definitely followed (probably followed the tree-creeper).  Once the Red Woodpecker definitely followed the group.  The BCBT's stuck to the trees, ranged from 10 to 40 ft above ground.  The woodpecker and tree-creeper also stuck to the trees, probably ranging about same distances from ground.  The [[underlined]] cyanocephala [[/underlined]] stuck to the tree-tops 30 - 60 ft above ground.  The WM and PL stuck to the scrub, 5 - 20 ft above ground.  All the birds were quiet or silent except the Cy.

The reason I am sure that this was a mixed flock is that I have passed this area many times before without seeing much in the way of birds.  Also, all these particular birds disappeared at more or less the same time.  Just sort of drifted off in an inconspicuous manner.

It is important to stress, however, that they never formed a compact group. Scattered anything from 10 to 20 ft away from one