June cont Mt Pichincha Quito, Ecuador go all the way up. We decided to walk from the car a ways + set the traps, even if it looked too lush, since we couldn't reach the place Fernando had in mind. We were at about 3500 (or was it 3800?) meters. There was grassy, weedy, flowery open fields (tall grass - 2-3'), and "chaparral"; Thick, tall shrubs + bushes with a good ground cover. Traps were definitely tropically green + varied. The bushy areas were great for birds, + there were lots of all sorts of flowers, including big ones that just looked like hummingbird flowers. There were hummers all over, maybe because the rain had stopped, maybe because it was evening. We saw 4 kinds of hummers, of which I remember, 4: Patagona gigas, blue-winged? (the 2nd largest species), puff-legged, + a canely rustly-colored one with iridescence on The rump. Also, we saw an ant pitta grailoria on the road, blue headed tanager, flower piercers, 2 copanis, + perhaps a capionuliform. At dusk there were frogs croaking and calling, violently one that sounds like a clear plik! of water drop in a cave or a tap on some musical wood. The view down & over Quito is magnificent, + The clouds cleared a little to allow us to see Antisana and ? . Fog started down the valley + around the mountains, but we