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And it obviously is largely the [[underlined]] same [[/underlined]] flock seen here a couple of months ago!!! In exactly the same locality!!!

(Note, again, that this flock was composed [[underlined]] entirely [[/underlined]] of species also present in the Quito region.)

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6:37.  There are a number of small hummingbirds around here. Possibly the same SGH as at "Canaan."

6:47.  Hear Yellowface singing in the distance. NODWA

NOTE: All these observations are being made [[underlined]] above [[/underlined]] the road.  I have been walking slowly uphill.  I am now at 9025 ft.

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6:49. See single [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]], silent and definitely alone.  4 ft up in sparse hedge-like scrub.  Almost certainly [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] one of the birds seen with flock earlier.

See a couple of Sooty Thrushes alone, in scrub way down hill.

Starting downhill myself at 6:52 am.

COMMENT: I have always had an "unfortunate" suspicion that the absence of mixed flocks in such parts of the Quito region as the Nono locality might be due to the smallness of the bird populations there.  [[underlined]] But certainly the populations here are much smaller! [[/underlined]] and yet the birds [[underlined]] are [[/underlined]] Allogregarious.

[[left margin, in red]] CC [[/left margin]]
[[left margin, in purple]] VI HO [[/left margin]]
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7:00 am.  See pair of [[two green checkmarks]] [[underlined]] rufinuchas [[/underlined]] in thick hedge-like scrub.  Alone where mixed flock seen earlier.  Ranging 5 - 15 ft up.  Quiet.  then I see that there is a [[two green checkmarks]] pair of CC's behind them.  CC's f [[right arrow]] [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] repeatedly.  CC's also quiet, ranging 5 - 15 ft up. Both CC's and [[underlined]] rufinuchas [[/underlined]] apparently picking insects off leave.

[[left margin, in red]] Ater 17 [[/left margin]]

Then I see single [[red checkmark]] Ater in same hedge.  20 ft downhill from CC- [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] group.  10 ft up.  Silent.  Also picking insects off leave.  [[underlined]] Shows absolutely no tendency to follow mixed flock. [[/underlined]]