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July 17, 1965
Piedras Blancas
6:00 am Ca. 8050 ft. Region scrubby vegetation. Cloudy. Some fog
See lots of single thrushes, apparently [[underlined]] fuscater [[/underlined]], alone. 5 - 15 ft up
[[margin, in red]] Blue 1 [[/margin]]
Then see single [[red check mark]] Blue Diglossa (juv. Cy??? Coer???) in bush 4 ft up. Silent and alone
Very little bird song at first. Then some Diglossa type sounds begin. Probably Albis and Coers
SEE TODAY'S NOTES ON MIXED DIGLOSSINI
ADDITION: At some time early this morning, Humberto Alvarez saw BYB's [[two red check marks]] in a tree
[[margin, in red]] 3 [[/margin]] 
(either the same birds twice, or 2 birds not close together). Apparently quite alone. 
COMMENT: [[underlined]] I saw remarkably few birds today!!! [[/underlined]] Possibly there were a lot of
[[margin, in red]] Albi Coer [[/margin]]
birds around in the neighborhood which I failed to see - [[underlined]] but I doubt it [[/underlined]]. 
The Albis, Coer(s), and Sooty Thrushes which were present were quite conspicuous, and quite vocal. 
But I did not hear many vocalizations of other species. 
The apparent sparsity of the fauna here is really quite suprising. Much of the scrub looks eminently suitable
for many species. But perhaps the fact that almost all the local trees are conifers (and almost all exotic)
has a "discouraging" effect???
Absolutely [[underlined]] no [[/underlined]] mixed flocks of any kind were seen. This is surprising because
the area certainly is near a "frontier", and large mixed flocks were seen in nearby areas in 1962. 
Also surpri