1980 Ronald L. Munne Melanerpes formicivorus Road 3 Hastings Reservation 31 March Start watch 1530, 1540 ♀265 DBlue/Yell-LBlue shows up, eats acorn (F). She is alone, unattended by ♂♂. No "pack" behavior yet. 1550, ♂68 DBlue/DBLue also eats acorn (F). ♂184 white-BLK/BLK-white also shows. Weather rotten & deteriorating (cloudy, breezy, everybody sitting tight. ♂184 also eats acorn (F). 1605, everybody huddling on lee side of granary (Valley Oak). 1615, ♂♂ fly off ♀ stays put. No packing yet 1645, ♀ still hasn't moved, ♂♂ have moved away and back a couple times 7 April Start 0925, 3 birds in granary as I arrive, all flush. moments later, ♂68 DBlue/DBLue returns, the leaves. 0955, Dblue/yellow LBlue ♀265 & ♂68 arrive together, she enters last year's nest hole, goes down! 1000, ♂184 at hole, leaves, ♀265 leaves, ♂68 arrives, goes down! (see drawing on back), 1012, ♂68 leaves, ♂184 looks in, flies off, (after ♂68 had left). 1014, ♂184 goes down [I think!] (for sure!). Both ♀265 + ♂68 eat acorns while ♂184 down (F)(F). 1032, ♂184 comes out, sits outside nest 1038 back in, 1043 out. 1047, → ♀265 enters, down. 1050, ♂184 chases Dove, goes to → nest hole. 1053, ♂68 flies to nest, ♂184 chatters then moves up and away. ♂68 now alone, 1055, ♂68 flies off. 1101, ♂68 cubs briefly, leave, ♀265 still there, 1103, ♂184 lands briefly, ♀265 leaves. 1113 → ♀265 flies well off, followed 1st by ♂184 then ♂68. End 1120, Back at 1500, nest empty! False alarm, I perped in and saw nothing