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9:15 See single [[underlined]] ^[[1 check mark above]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] in low scrub. Alone

Then see a hummingbird carrying [[?]] in bill! Making repeated trips to nest. It´s a little green and brown bird with white spot behind eye.

See a white Basileuterus ^[[1 check mark above]] XLI feeding low scrub. Uttering "Tsit"s Then several single hoarse notes when it sees me. There are really "chahk" no "chah". Then utters "Seeet"s. Apparently associated with ^[[2 check marks above]] 2 other birds; but I can't identify the latter. And the association may be very brief.

9:28. There is a hummingbird feeding on pink flowers of A Mysts tree. But no sign of A itself

Leaving 9:35. Sun out again

I am rather baffled by this morning's results. As far as I could tell, there were [[underlined]] no [[/underlined]] real mixed flocks today. Why? Why were there mixed flocks last week. Has the breeding season started here now? If so, why was song so slightly early this morning? Were the birds last week reacting to bad weather. If so, it is [[underlined]] surprising [[/underlined]] that they seemed to sing as much (or more) last week in addition to flocking together.

Looking over Niethammer's list, I see that there are less than half as many montane tanagers and [[underlined]] Altapetes [[/underlined]] in Bolivia than in Colombia. So inter-specific gregariousness is apparently not postively correlated with impoverishment of the (avian) fauna.

ADDITION: The common thrush in this lower La Paz garden area is presumably the same Brown species as near Unduavi Big and a rather warm brown. Slightly lighter below Slightly streaked on breast. Pale orange bill & legs. No eye ring