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

of "Seeet" Notes. Yellow-bellies j----> Blue & Blacks. A single Sooty Thrush across road does [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] join the group.

Sun up 6:21 a m.

Blue & Blacks and Yellow-bellies seem to be the only tanagers which range up into the alpine scrub with appreciable frequency.

See another single thrush alone. Light eye ring.

Clouding over 6:31 a.m.

[[margin, in red]] Cy 44 [[/margin]] 

Well! Well! 6:35. See single Cy (definite). Alone. In tops trees edge alpine and upper sub-tropical forest. 9400 ft according to my altimeter. Apparently looking for insects, leaves and twigs. Silent 15 – 22 ft above  ground.
[[margin, in red]] Cy Albi [[/margin]] 
Flies off almost immediately. Then I hear burst Cy-like Twitter some distance away. So Cys may range slightly higher than Albis!
Going down the road to where the forest is higher and most of the mixed flocks are 7:00 a.m. Sun out again.
See single Sooty Thrush alone. And another. And another.
See a couple of Oecthecas alone 7:10.
7:20. See single Blue & Orange. In mature tree. 20 – 25 ft up. Silent. 
[margin, in red]] 45 [[/margin]]
There is another small bird in adjacent tree, 10 – 15 ft away. Can't tell if it is reacting with the Blue & Orange or not. But then the Blue & Orange goes down into tangle. Feeds 4 – 10 ft above ground. Other bird does [[underline]] not [[/underline]] follow. So now Blue & Orange definitely [[underline]] alone [[/underline]]. So perhaps not absolutely obligately commensal!
[[margin, in purple]] XII N [[/margin]]
[[margin, in red]] Cy Albi 46 [[/margin]]
A little further on, see single Cy [[green check mark and red check mark]] alone. Uttering "Tut"s. 15 ft up in small tree. [[underline]] Just [[/underline]] above where first [[female symbol]] Albi seen! Then it, apparently (from sounds) flies into treat 20 ft away, where there is a Yellow-belly.
[[margin, in red]] Cy 44 [[/margin]] 
[[margin, in green]] 77 [[/margin]]
It is quite possible that this Cy, Yellow-belly, [[underline]] and [[/underline]] the Blue & Orange
are members of a diffuse flock. Or, at least, in process of assembling to for