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[[circled]] 45 [[/circled]] 10:02. See single maroon crested montane cotinga alone in USF trees. [[left margin in red]] Coer 14 [[/left margin]] Then see single [[underlined]] Coer [[/underlined]] [[1 pencil, 1 red, 1 blue checkmark]] [[circled in blue]] 13 [[/circled]] fly by! Alone. Silent. [[left margin in blue]] IV HO [[/left margin]] [[left margin in purple]] IV HO [[/left margin]] [[left margin in green]] 20 [[/left margin]] 10:12 9390 ft. Catch glimpses mixed flock in trees of USF. Probably includes at least 4 [[[five green checkmarks]] or 5 birds. But all I can identify are 2 [[two blue, two pencil checkmarks]] [[circled in pencil]] 1 [[/circled]] White-spectacleds and 1 [[blue checkmark]] Sitti. 20 - 30 ft up. Group noisy but diffuse. Group then moves up hill into adjacent AS. Now see that it includes [[left margin in red]] Inter [[/left margin]] [[underlined]] 2 [[/underlined]] [[two pencil, 1 blue checkmarks]] [[circled in pencil]] 2 [[/circled]] Sittis. Picking insects off leaves. Also at least 2 [[two blue, two pencil checkmarks]] [[circled in pencil]] 3 [[/circled]] [[underlined]] luteoviridis [[/underlined]] types, 6 - 10 ft up in scrub near trees. [[left margin in pencil]] IV H.O [[/left margin]] [[left margin in green]] 22 [[/left margin]] It [[underlined]] sounds [[/underlined]] as if group also includes some PL's. [[circled in pencil]] 4 [[/circled]] [[1 blue, 1 pencil checkmark]] I can hear Atlapetes-like "Seeet" notes. Flocks really are [[underlined]] quite [[/underlined]] common in this area now! Group passes thru area in which maroon-crested cotinga is perched. And the latter flies [[underlined]] away [[/underlined]] immediately. Apparently nothing follows. Group as a whole is quiet now, 10:30 am., and [[underlined]] still very diffuse [[/underlined]] I am going to start back uphill toward Station #2. On way back, see several more single Sooty Thrushes alone. Also hear more Whitestart song. NODWA. [[left margin in pencil]] V H O [[/left margin]] [[left margin in blue]] V H O [[/left margin]][[left margin in purple]] V HO [[/left margin]] 9800 ft. See a pair of Oecthecas alone. 11:05. 9860 ft. Region where AS is low but particularly thick. [[left margin in red]] Glor [[/left margin]] See group of [[2 green, 2 blue checkmarks]] 2 Yellow-bellies and [[1 green, 1 blue checkmark]] 1 Glor. 2 ft up. Yellowbellies noisy. [[left margin in green]] 25 [[/left margin]] Yellowbellies f [[right arrow]] Glor! Clouds starting to come down 11:16 am. 11:35. 10,075 ft. Fog starting to come in. [[left margin in red]] 16 [[/left margin]] 11:43. 10,150 ft. See pair [[two red, 2 blue checkmarks]] [[circled in blue]] 5 [[/circled]] Whitebeards alone. 3 - 6 ft up in AS. Stopping observation 12:10 pm. COMMENT: The fauna here certainly seems impoverished - as compared with any of the Cordilleras of Colombia. Is this characteristic of the Venezuelan Andes as a whole???