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(whitish superciliary stripe) alone, 3 ft up, in dense scrub along edge of road Uttering "seeet" Notes.

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There seem to be a number of Green VIII hummingbirds around.

7:35 Another mixed flock In vegetation along road. Very mixed.  Small trees.
Some bamboo Other bushes. Group includes[[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 1 [[/purple]] 2 Yellow-faced Whitestarts, and [[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 2 [[/purple]] 2 of what appears to be [[underlined]] H. atropileus.[[underlined]] Whitestarts in lead.  Flycatching small trees 20 - 25 ft up. [[underlined]]] Atro-pileus [[/underlined]] following.  Tending to stick to bamboo, 15 - 20 ft up.  All quiet. There certainly are also some other birds with this group.

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Ah yes!  [[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 3 [[/purple]] One Yellow-bell at least. Feeding scrub & trees 2 - 15 ft up.  Sometimes noisy.  Then see [[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 4 [[/purple]] 2 PR Atlapetes and [[green check mark]] [[purple]] 5 [[/purple]] [[underlined]] nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] 3 ft up very sparse scrub across road.  They look as if they want to join other birds, but are afraid to because of my presence.  They are quiet Yellow-belly f [[right arrow]] group.  Then bus goes by, various things fly across road (to PR- [[underlined]] nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] side) without my being able to identify them.  All disappear from sight, moving low thru thick scrub.

Going on to another area 7:58 a.m.

See another single Sooty Thrush alone.  Then another.

Rain starting again 8:05 a.m.

SEE ALSO TODAY's NOTES ON MIXED DISLOSSINI

Leaving 8:55 A.M.

Arrive another area 8600 ft. 9:03 a.m. Some forest near pasture  Go along short path in forest.  Everything dead quiet, except for some hummingbirds  The area itself looks rather like Agua Bonita in the Eastern Cordillera

See a single Sooty Thrush alone.  Edge forest. No! It's a pair.

go on down to another area 2550 m.  Very jumbled second growth

9:55 a.m.  Everything quiet  Probably the weather.  It is sort of the hush before the