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area can't be more than 100 ft below peak
 [[left margin, red]] 2 [[/margin]]
  7:30 am 9250 ft. Hear, and catch brief glimpses of a pair of  Basileuterus or Hemisprugris type's. In low scrub, also in trees 20 ft above ground. Uttering "CN"s. Apparently alone.
  Windy and  [[underlined]] cold [[/underlined]] as hell now. But fog has lifted.
  See single Thrush alone. Apparently Sooty. But few. Dark eye ring. Bill half dark.
  Looking at some red tubular flowers 7:45. No Diglossa holes 
  7:49. Hear what [[underlined]] sounds [[/underlined]] like Scan in distance.
[[left margin]] [[purple]] I HO [[/purple]]] [[green]] 2 7 [[/green]] [[/margin]]
 Going up hill again 9300ft. 7:55. See definite mixed flock. Includes at least: [[two green checkmarks]] 1 pair Agnornis-types (species seen yesterday- [[underlined]] LXXXVI [[/underlined]] [[green checkmark]] [[underlined]] Blue & Orange [[/underlined]] 1 [[underlined]] PL [[/underlined]] Atlapetes, 1 [[underlined]] cyanocephala[[/underlined]], [[circled purple color]] 5 [[/circled purple color]] some hummingbirds [[two green checkmarks]]
  Agnornis-types [[underlined]] definitely in lead [[/underlined]] (flycatchers all around) PL f____→ group.  [[underlined]] cyanocephala[[/underlined]] j___→ group. Blue & Orange f____→ group. All birds high in rather scattered trees. 30 - 40 ft above ground.  Then PL flies across road into low scrub. [[underlined]] Nobody follows.[[/underlined]]
  It maybe significant that the wind abated, temporarily, just about the time I saw this group.
  8:05. A few feet further on, catch up with group again. Still in trees. [[margin, in green]] 9  [[/margin]] Now includes 1 Yellow belly, 1 GT [[green checkmark]], [[circled purple color]] 7 [[/circled purple color]] GT f____→ group.
  All birds quiet. Then hear one burst twitter. Quiet again.
  Group now, 8:10, seems to have disappeared down hill.
A little further along road, one pair sooty Thrushes alone.  One has orange bill, legs, dark eye ring. The other had darkish bill and legs as well as eye ring. The latter seems to be Begging from the former. Presumably juv. and adult [[female symbol]]. Both birds first in low scrub and then in trees.
  Wind still abated now 8:17. And it actually looks as if the     









 

Transcription Notes:
He's describing the bird's bill, not a bell. Sooty thrush (Turdus nigrescens) Hemispingus is a genus of warbler-like tanagers