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se "Seeet" or "Zheet" Notes. Juvenile begging?

Hear whitestart singing uphill 7:20 am.

Rain stopped.

Everything very quiet 7:30 am.

It is [[underlined]] cold [[/underlined]] this morning!

7:50 am. Come across small mixed flock. One ^[[2 check marks above]] pair of whitestart (get good view of them - definitely same species last year), at least ^[[1 check mark above]] one [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]], at least one ^[[1 check mark above]] Oectheca flycatcher. Whitestarts flitting about in usual manner, usually fairly high, 10 - 20 ft in trees. Warbler usually lower, in thick scrub below trees, 5 - 15 ft above ground. But sometimes the whitestarts come lower, and sometimes the warbler goes higher. At least once, whitestart f -> warbler. But then the whitestarts fly off across the road, and the warbler does [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] follow.

Both the whitestarts and the warbler were very vocal. Warbler uttering R's, whitestarts usual song. [[underlined]] And they tended to synchronize their vocalizations! [[/underlined]] One stimulated the other. Effect apparently reciprocal. Sometimes warbler started first, sometimes the whitestart(s). And both tended to stimulate distant whitestarts and/or [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] to vocalize (in the same ways). Thus, everything usually was either quiet or noisy as hell.

Then the fog and rain comes in. Rain heavy. Turning into hail! Getting a little better 9:25 am.

It seems quite possible that [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] is passive nuclear here now.

As far as I could tell this morning, the frequency of mixed flocks here may be much the same as during my previous visit.

Leaving 9:45 am. as rain settles down to heavy steady drizzle