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[[note in red]] *WCC record very dubious Individual may have been another species Possibly [[underlined]] T. heinei [[/underlined]] ??? [[/note in red]]

ween the sounds of the two species. 
[[left margin in colors]] I HO 2 Cy 5[[left margin]]

6:45 am. Come across mixed flock. Large. At least 20 birds. But diffuse. Includes a pair [[two green check marks]] of Whitestarts (same inds seen before), at least 1 [[green check mark]] Cy, at least 1 [[green check mark]] BYB, possibly 1 [[female symbol]] WCC (!)*, lots of others
Others [[underlined]] Tangara [[/underlined]] -types. Blue and Blacks and, probably, others. Edge large patch woods. In trees and bushes 5-20 ft up. BYB f------>
[[left margin in red]] Cy [[/left margin]] group. Cy j ------>group. Whitestarts sing quite frequently. Cy sings at least 1 phrase. Rapid Twitter, composed of many notes, very "formless". Little or nothing in way of Intro patterns. [[underlined]] Very [[/underlined]] different from Coer songs heard yesterday. [[underlined]] Cy does not overlap Whitestarts. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Tangara [[/underlined]] types eventually fly off into adjacent conifers. Land high up in trees. Other birds do not follow.

7:05. Same group. Whitestarts feeding 20 ft up in arboreal melastome. Also singing frequently. Get quite good view of them. Orange yellow forehead. Pure yellow front of face. Black coming forward to cover rear third or quarter of cheeks. At least one individual appears to have white spot or streak in black behind cheek. Obviously a species I have seen before. I shall call it "Yellow-faced" for time being.

No other birds very close to Whitestarts at this time. But lots of bird noises in scrub and trees in all directions, all around, 20-50 ft away Whitestarts fly off into distant trees. [[left margin in green]] 8 [[/left margin]] A group of 3 [[green check marks over 3]] [[underlined]] cyanocephala [[/underlined]] f -----> Whitestarts. (Possibly also some [[underlined]] Tangaras [[/underlined]].)

It looks as if the behavior of the birds in this region now is much the same as in 1962. (Altho I do not remember seeing mixed flocks in this particular spot before.)[[many check marks in green]] [[left margin in green]] 20 [[/left margin]]

7:15. See single Sooty thrush in conifers where some of the