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trees now are one [[underlined]] Red Woodpecker [[green checkmark and purple 4]] [[/underlined]] and at least one Brown squirrel!!! Both woodpecker and squirrel ca. 20 ft up.  In nearby scrub, [[left margin in green]] 82 [[/left margin]] are at least three [[underlined]] rufinuchas [[3 green checkmarks and purple 5]] [[/underlined]] and two [[underlined]] [[2 green checkmarks and purple 6]] B. nigrocristatus. [[/underlined]] Close together [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] repeatedly f [[right arrow]] [[underlined]] rufinuchas. [[/underlined]] And [[underlined]] rufinuchas [[/underlined]] repeatedly f [[right arrow]] [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus. rufinuchas [[/underlined]] ranging from ground - 2 ft up.  [[underlined]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] 1-3 ft up.

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Also with group are a pair of [[underlined]] Oecthesa [[2 green checkmarks and purple 17]] [[/underlined]], ranging all levels 1 - 20 ft up in both trees and scrub.

Group as a whole quiet now, except for Cy, which is still singing from time to time.

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Going to move up hill along path, to another area 8:05 am.

Good heavens! Life does get complicated here.  Only a few hundred yards further on. [[left margin in purple and green]] XIII HO 89 [[/left margin]] 
8500ft. 8:10 am. Come across [[underlined]] another [[/underlined]] mixed flock.  A group of birds first seen in low thick scrub (including lots of bamboo). At least 1 [[green checkmark]][[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] and 2 [[2 green checkmarks]] Yellowfaces.  Some [[2 green checkmarks]] Yellowbellies in small trees 50 yards away.  Yellowbellies j [[right arrow]] group of [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] and Yellowfaces.

This group gradually moves uphill.  Quite coherent.  All birds close together.  Very noisy Yellowfaces sing.  NODWA. Yellowbellies utter a great variety of loud sounds.

As group gets closer, I see that there are [[underlined]] at least four [[/underlined]] [[2 green checkmarks]] Yellowbellies in it.

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All adult.  Obviously divided into two pairs.  Some probably hostile chasing back and forth - but not as much as one might, perhaps have expected.  (To my recollection, this is the largest group of Yellow-bellies I have ever seen.)  All birds ranging 2 - 4 ft up.

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Also, as group gets nearer to me, I see that there is a [[underlined]] Red [[green checkmark]] Woodpecker with it [[/underlined]].  What it was doing in scrub, I don't know. But it