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[[circled]] 36 [[/circled]] are coming back, but I can't see them. Then silence again. I am going to try to go further uphill. 8:32 am. Fog is lifting. Reach highest point of path 8:45 am. This site is 8010 ft according to my altimeter now. This is where flocks were seen a couple of months ago, but there is nothing here right now. Then I hear some "yellowface" song not far away. NODWA Then I find that there is, in fact, a continuation of this path going even further up hill. So I start to follow it. Only a few yards along, I hear more Dubusia song. Then come to clearing, with thick scrub of moderate height (including bamboo). More or less surrounded by more or less tall trees. And there certainly is a mixed flock here. First, I see a single bird which looks like an all-[[underlined] sooty [[/underlined]] Synallaxis Juv. [[underlined]] unirufa [[/underlined]] ??? Silent. 3 ft up in scrub. Then suddenly see 1 or 2 Little Striped Flycatchers, 5 - 12 ft up edge clearing. Uttering R's. Then 4 large tanagers, close together, move thru the adjacent tree-tops. I can't identify them definitely. But they certainly are at least partly blue. Probably some or all are Big Bulthraupis. Quiet, except for occasional "CN"s. Then I see single [[underlined]] atropileus [[/underlined]] 4 - 6 ft up in bamboo. Then I see 2 "yellowfaces", 1 PL, and 1 firebelly, quite close together in tangles of vines, 15 - 25 ft up, about 30 ft away. Rather quiet. Then the group just seems to "fade away". I think this is probably partly same group seen earlier. Certainly it is (still) quite diffuse - as a whole. Also rather quiet as a whole. The presumed Big Bulthraupis and the Little Striped flycatchers seemed to be dividing the lead between them. The "yellowfaces", PL,