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[[circled]] 135 [[/circled]] [[left margin, in red]] CC [[/left margin]] I don't know if the birds in this CC- [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] group are the same ones seen in the larger mixed flock seen earlier or not. 7:11. See single Sooty Thrush alone. 3 ft up in scrub and on ground. Rather quiet. [[left margin, in red]] 18 [[/left margin]] NOTE: Part of the scrub here has been cleared since my last visit. 7:18 am. Downhill. Near road. 8860 ft. See single [[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] rufinucha. [[/underlined]] Quiet and alone. Ranging from ground to 10 ft up, in extensive "field" of miscellaneous second-growth scrub. [[left margin, in red]] VB Ater [[/left margin]] Another single Sooty Thrush alone in scrub by road. Taking a long walk down road. (Note: There are quite a lot of Passiflora flowers around here at various localities. Apparently not same species as in the Western Cordillera. Salmon-pink, not lavender pink. There also are a lot of bushes with the clusters of small yellow flowers favored by VB's and Aters at "Canaan".) 7:40 Another single Sooth Thrush above. And another. Hear some more Yellowface song. NODWA. 8:40. Slightly below road. Group of 3 Sooty Thrushes flies by. Noisy but alone. Sun coming out 8:50 am. Going back above road. Everything [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] quiet now. [[underlined]] More [[/underlined]] single Sooty Thrushes alone. Nothing else! [[underlined]] rufinuchas [[/underlined]] certainly are keeping themselves hidden now! (This presumably is why mixed flocks also have disappeared now. [[underlined] rufinuchas [[/underlined]] here may as important as passive nuclear species as they are on Munchique.) Leaving 9:40 a.m COMMENT: It probably is significant that I did not see the