![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[circled]] 60 [[/circled]] es bamboo scrub; but they usually stick to trees, both second growth and mature. The [[underline]] Pseudospingus [[/underline]] were the most thoroughly arboreal, on the whole, ranging 15 - 40 ft up. Showed a definite tendency to stick to tree-tops, at any level. Flitting about on top, poking down [[underline]] into [[/underline]] crown, apparently looking for insects. Everything else tended to stay slightly under the "cover" of the top [[margin, in red]] Sitti [[/margin]] most series of leaves. Sittis ranging 15 - 30 ft up. Definitely picking insects off leaves. Yellowbellies and Blue & Black ranging 10 - 35 ft up. Couldn't see what they were feeding on. Tree creepers ranging more or less same elevations as Sittis Whitestarts ranging 10 - 35 ft up. Flycatching as usual All or most of the rest of the birds averaged somewhat Lower, probably ranging 8 - 30 ft up. The GT was seen only briefly, 25 - 30 ft up. All or almost all birds very noisy. Especially [[underline]] Pseudospingus [[/underline]]. Whitestart(s) Sang occasionally. [[underline]] B. nigrovirstatus [[/underline]] uttered R's. Leadership of group apparently changing occasionally. But usually being exercised by the more "warbler-like" types. [[underline]] Pseudospingus [[/underline]] certainly in lead [[underline]] a good part of the time [[/underline]]. Led flight across road. But I think the [[underline]] nigrocristatus [[/underline]] [[margin, in red]] Sitti [[/margin]] and the Sittis also led for some seconds or minutes. Yellowbellies usually near or at rear. PL certainly showed no tendency to lead. The Yellow bellies and the Blue & Black tended to stay close to one another. So, [[underline]] probably [[/underline]], did the Sittis and the tree creepers! One of the Whitestarts chased the other from time to time. Also supplanted a [[underline]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underline]] at least once. Chases & supplants silent. But chase followed by Songs. When flock was first seen, it was in area where there was a lot of bamboo among trees. There seems to have been one, or a small group, of [[underline]] H. [[/underline]]