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The Black-and-white situation was somewhat complicated today. I encountered birds in three general areas, all pretty disperate: Here 33.7104543, -114.4961895 in the early morning I had a single bird. This was a bird with a white throat and black streaking on the flanks, with no apparent buffiness on the flanks. I got a recording of this bird calling (which I believe turned out), but unfortunately no photos. I do not believe I got either of these two features wrong There were several encounters in this area (33.7060378, -114.5066102). One encounter was of two birds together (!). One of these birds had some faintish BLACK markings on the throats along with thick black flank streaking. The other bird had a white throat and faintish gray flank streaking. At the time I did not believe either bird had buffy flanks, though I could have had this incorrect. Right before I was those two birds together, a bird that appeared to be a black-and-white warbler with buffy flanks flew out of the grove. However, I assumed just that one of the birds had circled around. However, about 10 minutes later, nearby here (33.7060378, -114.5066102), here I saw a Black-and-white with buffy on the flanks and no black streaking on the flanks (=hy?). It seems likely this was the white-throated bird in the previous flock but I am not certain and I got no photos The final encounter was here 33.7104543, -114.4961895 and was of a bird with black in the throat that, from the photos, to my eye appears to be the same as the other black-throated bird. So, it seems to me there were three different individuals based on plumage: one with black flanks and black in throat, one with black flanks with white throat (by wetlands), and buffy flanks. It seems possible that four individuals were involved given I thought the first white-throated individual did not have buffy flanks, but who knows. For the time being, 3 seems like a reasonable assumption to me.
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