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A little further [[eight green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 6 [[/purple]] along road catch glimpses of what seems to be same group. Still uphill in trees. Then see single PL fly up hill, apparently going to join group. 
Leaving 9:55 am Fog getting thicker and thicker
COMMENTS: I am now coming to the conclusion that mixed flocks are [[underlined]] at least [[/underlined]] as highly developed here as in the Western Cordillera. Note the large [[underlined]] number [[/underlined]] of apparently passive nuclear species: e.g. the Black and White, the All-rufous Spinetail, [[underlined]] Psudospinggus, B. luteovirides. [[/underlined]]
It is becoming obvious, however, that I [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] look at the avifauna of the more humid areas of Ecuador and Central Peru in more detail. The road to Santo Domingo and Maraynioc!
Apparently the WCC is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] a regular member  of mixed flocks 

[[left margin in red]] WCC [[/left margin]] 

at the altitudes at which I have been working here. Why? Is it confined to lower elevations here? Is it unable to compete with [[underlined]] Psuedospingus [[/underlined]] (a species of similar size, equally arboreal, and probably also largely insectivorous).
Certainly bad weather did not discourage the formation of mixed flocks here this morning (altho it may have discouraged some scrub-inhabiting species, such as the PR Atlapetes and Diglossa spp. from joining the flocks).
It is interesting that I have not seen any squirrels with flocks in this Cordillera. Why?
In the area worked today, the PL Atlapetes, the Yellow-belly, and (probably) the Blue & Black seem to be the 3 species which range most frequently from high in trees to low-in scrub, thus "tieing" together the