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[[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