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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK
95
MELANERPEs FURMIFICIVOROUS
HAY-BLOM
HNHR
30 April
14:30 check holes- no body seen in a hole.
4 May
12:00 6eggs - fairly fresh.- (several days under incubation)
1 27.8x19.2 3 27.7x18.9 5 27.7x18.9
2 26.6x19.4 4 27.3x18.4 6 26.2x192
13 May
8:15 Still 6eggs - 1 bad, 1 piped 4 others good.
Bad egg removed (to see if DNA can be obtained.)
16 May
8:45 4 babies. 1egg shell,
① 11.0g ③ 9.0g
② 10.5g ④ 7.5g
Did not put bands on birds - too small.
14 June
11:30 - Checked -holes -nobody seen - Some stores
remaining
30 June
11:30 - Checked several holes - hello? -Nobody seen
14 Aug
10:30 - Checked holes - nobody seen. A few
acorn stores remaining.
1995
1 April
11:20 - Some stores. Saw nobody in a hole.
17 April
10:50 - Checked holes - Nobody seen.
27 April!
(p.m) Checked holes - Nobody seen in hole. Saw
4 birds in tree below granary tree.