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BY JOSEPH HAYDOCK
95
MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS
MIDDLE PRAIRIE HF
HNHR
18 June 18:00 Banded/bled 5 nestlings with Laura. Plenty
of stores remaining.
1995
10 April 18:30 Arrive to do roost watch. Need to catch
1533 for blood sample. No bird seen in a hole
on arrival. Not much luck with roost watch. Peter
thinks 1 bird may have entered hole on E side
to of lower (granary)tree) near top of limb.
14 April. 18:30 Resel ambush (Walt set earlier in the day)
Pete watches, and reports that no birds roosted
in either ambush hole.
15 April
1 MAY 10:00 - Bird in hole when I arrived. Marked egg ③
(AM) - 2 nestlings (21-2d old), 1 egg (bad).
10 May 9:00 - Set ambush at nest. I want to get
1533 (B4) and 2076 (HP) for blood/DNA.
10:30 - Returned to blind to wait for 1533 or
2076 to feed. 1614 seen; 2336 seen.
Caught 1533 - replaced bands - D'd to:
* black-white / Black
m
Dgreen. Took blood/DNA sample
L-green (M)
L-blue-yellow (L pink)
11 MAY 15:00 - Set ambush to try for - 2076 -
Bird not seen during 1.5hr watch.
23 MAY 15:30 - Banded/bled 2 nestlings with Walt.
2598: mauve-white / mauve-red 2599: black-yellow / m