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[[margin,red]] IV or IVA Brun [[/margin]] Hear what sounds like local Firebelly song in distance up hill IV or IV A hummer flies off after another dark bird, which is, [[underline]] I think, [[/underline]] a Brun. Then the presumed Brun disappears, and the hummer goes off to feed by itself. (These may be the same 2 birds involved in the hostile encounter yesterday.)

[[margin,red]] CC [[/margin]] 8:30. See a pair of [[2 checkmarks]] CC's [[/checkmark]] feeding alone. Utters twitters as "greetings".

See a pair of Light capped Thrushes alone. Joined by a third. One of the pair immediately chases newcomer. I.E. this species is not at all gregarious now.

[[margin,red]] CC [[/margin]] See same pair of CC's again a few minutes later. Still alone. Silent. Probing at leaves, apparently for insects.

[[margin,red]] CC [[/margin]] Then see a single [[check mark]] CC [[/checkmark]] alone. Utters twitter as "landing call"

8:45. See single IV hummingbird. Perched alone. Get excellent
[[margin,red]] IV [[/margin]]  view of it. See white plumes thigh, rufous underside to tail. Obvious, now, that IV and IV A are the same thing. This bird had little or no white spot behind eye. The bill of the species is straight, moderate in length, and somewhat awl-shaped.

[[margin,red]] Brun [[/margin]] A few minutes later see single [[checkmark]] Brun [[/checkmark ]] feeding alone.

Leave 9:30. Rain getting stronger

NOTE: According to my driver, the rainy season here should be from December to March. But this year it is "delayed" – i.e. there has been less rain than usual so far.

This afternoon going to work on the lower slopes of Cutacaucho (starting out from high way at same place where where one starts for [[Peet?]] area. Arrive 3:35 p.m. Overcast, cold, windy.

[[margin,red]] Brun [[/margin]] 3:47. See a single [[checkmark]] Brun [[/checkmark]] chasing and swooping at a single brown bird. The latter is definitely not a hummer. House Wren????