Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4463

Haydock, Joseph
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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
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Acorn woodpecker Acorn woodpecker--Behavior--California Hastings Natural History Reservation (Calif.)

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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORAS CHONGO HNHR 20 April 16:10 Removed some woodrat nest material from lower hole. Removed 7 eggs. 23 April Attempted mate guarding watch. Used blind located 8:15-11:15 ~50m up hill from main grainery/nest tree. Saw the following individuals. Y/Y red/white(m) 1968 BK/m Or/D-by(N) 2103 or-Y/m 1665 Or-46/or Dgr? (N) D-blue m (dg-BLK(N)) 2175 Started to rain about half-way through observation period. Difficult to follow BP and identify other B's w/o using BP. -Need help w/ these watches. Paint would be very useful. 26 April! Attempted mate guarding watch w/Jeremy. 9:05 started observations, Y/Y red-white(N) (M) 1968 7 seen in grainery, but BLACK (m) orange/D-blue-yellow 2103 3 w/o male breeders -So apparently not mate guarding. These birds left after about 10 min. and where not seen again During 2 hrs of observation. Did see 2 9's and a 8' across cation. Also observed (in grainery tree) * white-black / blue-black 2290 Not chased (1968) was in grainery tree at the same time. 11:05 End observation. Apparently not mate guarding but birds (above 9's) seen in grainery only for total of 10 min. 2290 good I.D. seen well. [This bird was banding as nestling at 54W]
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94 JOSEPH HAYOOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORADS SHANGO HNHR 27 April 13:20 Arrive to start a 'mate guarding' watch w/ Watt. Have seen up to 5 birds together across canyon (Watt) Saw Y/P ; MAUVE/D Bile ; MAUVE/M ; Unbanded ? I.D: ? [1968] [2326] ? ? In main storage tree. Neither breeding ?'s - Not mate guarding 1968 at least. 14:15 End obs. 19:00 Roost watch- no birds seen to go in gramary roost tree. (Watt reports they roosted across canyon.) 28 April 8:00 Another attempt to watch mate guarding, again from gramary tree side of canyon (west side). Unable to start observations until never because spotting scope had inside condensation (dried out insun). Moved down slope and close enough to gramary to observe w/ binoculars- (Moved blind down) 10:00 Blind set-up, ready to start observations. Where are the birds? (From upper observation point I noticed that 5 birds where in gramary tree most of the time. I assume this included some if not all breeders - so they probably are mate guarding now.) 19:00 Chased at least 4 birds from buckeye annex roof tree. Jeremy reports at least 3-4 birds nested in grainery tree, this years nest hole. 29 April Fairly successful mate guarding observation (13:45- done with Jeremy. Observed breeders several Times. Birds still spending much time on east side.
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94 Joseph Haydock MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS CHONGO HNHR 29 April 19:00 Mark has set ambush (nest tree). My job is to scare birds from buckeye annex again. Birds don't roost in buckeye annex, but mark reports that they did not go to the nest tree w/ ambush. 30 April 8:18 - 11:18 - Another fairly successful note regarding watch. This time with Katy. Birds never did visit any holes in tree (main granary / nest tree), making me think they are not interested in nesting - Do they really want to nest at Buckeye annex. Reset ambush to try again tonight at main granary / nest hole. 4 May 7:20 Arrive west side to check on activity levels at nest hole tree. Obs. from blind looked N. of tree. 7:30 21034 and one other in tree ~ 1 min. 7:44 21758 7:50 19689 8:20-30 P2326 and 21034 together in tree; 21034 leaves P2326 does not follow. 5 May 14:30 8 eggs. buckeye annex tree. ① 28.0 x 19.9 ④ 26.8 x 19.7 ⑦ 26.7 x 20.0 ② 26.6 x 19.6 ⑤ 26.6 x 19.7 ⑧ 26.5 x 19.6 ③ 26.4 x 19.8 ⑥ 28.0 x 20.2 Walt used 20ft ladder (in tree) to get to nest hole in dead branch. (half way up) 18 May 10:15. Walt reports, 6 nestlings! ① Orange, 24.0 ② blk white(N) 19.0
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94 HAYDOCK, JOSEPH. 95 MELANERPES FORMICIVOROUS CHONGO HN/412 18 May Continued. ③ Yellow, 23.0 ④ Red, 18.1 ⑤ D blue, 22.4 ⑥ NOBA 9.8 13 July 1:00 checked trees on both sides of canon - nobody seen in a hole. Some stones remaining in granery on west side of canon. 1995 April 2 18:45 - Roost watch w/ Jim Pele. Jim Pele watch on E side of canon - report that I go over to W. side (granery tree) Slee bird looking out of upper rost hole when I arrive. April 3 16:03 - Checked cavity for eggs (package side) Nothing in hole, but looks good. Set ambush at granery tree, (upper underneath hole. Limb facing canon). Checked both cavities on underside of this branch for eggs - none. Observed one bird go to roost in hole w/ambush April 4 4:45 - Pulled ambush - nothing seems to be in hole (heard nothing fly from lower hole), (climbed up and checked to find nobody!! I have no idea where the bird that went in last night went.)
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95 J. HAYDOCK MELANEREPES FORMICIVORUS CHONGO HNHR 10 April 15:00 Arrive to attempt to set ambush at tree on puckyeye side of canyon. They roosted in hole in limb facing canyon. (new hole, not in dead limb) (April 8th, Peter Obs.). I made it most of the way up this branch, but it seemed a bit too close to dead to risk venturing further out - Possible that hole could be blocked so by climbing adjacent tree and using pole w/ plugging device on end! 24 April 13:30 2 eggs. Measured (1) 26.6 x 19.8. Early Incubation (1-3d). 6 May 9:00 - 5 nestlings, legg (removal) (would not have had that) largest nestling: 16g. 2 of 5 nestlings probably will not make it. 23 MAY 8:30 - Nest ambush attempt. Want to catch 1968 B4 and 2103 B4 for blood/DNA sample. Yes! - Caught 1968 / took blood/DNA sample. Checked ultracold - have unused 1992 sample for #2103 - So no need to get this individual. 25 MAY 8:30 - Banded/bled 3 nestlings. 2606: white/M black-yellow/black-yellow 2607: L-green/L-green M/LLgreen-L-blue mauve-orange/(mauve orange 2608: Orange (m)
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS CHONGO HNHR 26 MAY 7:30 - Arrived to capture unbanded adults. Apparently there is only a pair here (As per restwatch by Jure) Caught B♂ (#2853.) 27 MAY 6:45 - Came to find tree covered - yes covered with ants, including all around entry hole to nest. I presumb nest was destroyed by ants after I caught the B♂ and he was not there for a while to defend the nest. (There have always been a lot of ants in this tree). Too many ants on tree for me to want to climb up and check rest, - perhaps returning early in the morning would make checking the nest possible. 6 June 8:30 - Banded and bled 3 very small & 1 old nestlings. #2879-2881
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BUCKEYE HNHR 13 July 1:30 checked holes in 3 trees (near platform, up hill from platform and to South). Nobody seen in a hole. Some stones remaining. 4 Aug. 19:30 Roost watch-at least 3 birds roost in Buckeye tree, two in small hole on N side of tree, the other in hole with ambush. 8 Aug 16:30 reset Walt reset ambush in dead tree, set pole in alternate hole (N side of tree) to prevent than from entering. 19:30- Two birds seen going into hole w/ ambush. 9 Aug 4:45. Walt reports 2 birds in hole. Caught 2173 and 2091 1995 April 2 18:40 - checked holes in big dead tree- Nobody seen looking out. April 10 16:30 checked holes in granary tree and upper roost tree. No birds seen. Lots of acorns in granary tree. April 13 19:30 Roost watch with Jim. Jim saw 1 bird roost in granary tree. (NE side) I observed tree up hill from granary tree. Several birds in area at roost time. None seen to enter either hole in tree. Possible that there is a hole they used in [illegible] tree just below this (Very large valley oak)
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FURNICIVORUS BUCKEYE HNR April26 16:30 Set ambush at tree above granary. April27 5:00 - Caught 2 birds. 2565, 2091. Other birds in group may have roosted in granary tree. Aprd 30 19:30 - Roost watch-Unable to determine where they roosted. 10 MAY 19:45 - Roost watch- Birds again seen heading downhill, to SW of granary tree- Could not find hole. 12 May 20:00 - Roost watch. Watts reports that ~5 birds roosted at buckeye "annex". Could they be buckeye birds or are they chongo?? 23 MAY 20:00 - Yet another roost watch. Some birds roosted in new hole in granary tree; top of limb that points (more or less) towards Hastings houses. 5 JUNE 20:00 - Roost watch. I checked buckeye annex tree first (about 25 min prior to roost time) and saw 3 birds fly from hole (last years chongo nest). Returned to Buckeye granary tree to watch roosting. Saw 4-6 birds roost in this tree. 3-4 roosted in new hole that faces Hastings buildings; Another 2-3 roosted in hole at end of branch that points uphill. - So bird at buckeye annex too could be either chongo birds or buckeye birds that decided to roost in their granary too.
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97 J. HAYDOCK 98 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BUCKEYE HNHR 22 April 10:10 - No birds seen anywhere. 18 MAY 15:20 - Banded and bled 3 healthy happy nestlings! #2826-2828 1998 7 MAY 14:00 - Can hear very small babies (<3d old) No bird seen. Lower hole in nest tree above granary. 9 MAY 14:30 - 4 babies; largest 14.5g. (so hatched on about 6 MAY), One baby about 8g; the others about the size of the largest. 16 MAY 17:30 - Moved baby ID 2974 from cavity to here. 3 other healthy babies in nest - All about the same size as cavity baby. Cavity bird has a D-blue-white band on its right leg. 30 MAY 9:40 - Banded 4 babies. Acorns stores remaining.
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99 HAYDOCK 2000 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BUCKEYE HASTINGS 26 MAY 7:15 - No birds seen in hole or anywhere else in territory 2000 19 MARCH 11:00 - Lots of acorns remaining. Granary about 75% full. No evidence of a nest. Also, checked BUCKEYE ANNEX - No birds seen. Took ladder back to Lab. 3 MAY 11:10 - Bird in hole. Upper nest tree, lowest hole. Flicker seen in upper most hole at BUCKEYE. Amox 3 MAY 12:50 - 4 eggs - fresh (day 1-2 of incubation) ① 26.3 x 20.1 14 MAY 12:20 - 4 babies. All healthy. 18.9, 18.1, 17.8, 10.9, Hatched on ~10 MAY. 2 JUN 8:15 - Banded the 4 babies. Lots of acorns remaining in granary
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS PLAQUE Aug 30 19:00 - Roost watch. 1 bird goes into higher hole on southside of tree located to the north of the Lab. 1995 April 2 18:30 - Checked last years roost hole - Nobody looking out. May 2 13:00 - Checked upper/lower hole in roost by old barn. Did not open lower hole, but could not see any eggs with peeper. (Pete reported bird in this hole yesterday.) May 23 20:00 - See bird in lower hole in roost by barn, as I am going up to do roost watch at buckeye. 5 JUNE 20:00 See bird in upper & lower hole in roost by barn. (as I went to buckeye roost)
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS PLAQUE MAY 16 19:00 - Checked to see if they looked - yes - hear nestlings; saw several birds around WLP MAY 27 13:00 - Set-up ambush (bull in place for 1st week) to attempt catching of breeder males for painting. They have 4 healthy looking nestlings. Caught # 2428 - took blood, plasma, painted him green. 15:00 - Ended attempt at capturing males MAY 22 9:10 - Set ambush again to catch more males for painting. Caught #1757 - took blood, plasma, painted him brown. 14:30 - Caught 2056 - blood, painted him blue Removed all 4 nestlings to force another nesting attempt (hopefully). Nestlings placed in foster nests - 2 at CUMBERT and 2 at LAZ. This group is interesting for mate guarding observations because there are at least 3 breeding males (possibly 6) and they are a group of co-breeders composed of a fathers with his sons of varying ages. MAY 25 8:00 - Preliminary observations for mate guarding to get familiar with birds - Observed for 1 hr and only saw 4 birds - The breeder female # and the 3 painted males. Brown-# 1757 Green-#2428 and Blue-# 2056. All birds fly catching in "PLAQUE" tree. Difficult to tell if male guarding yet - but they were together all the time.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS PLAQUE HNHR MAY 26 8:25 → MATE GUARDING OBS. ON TAPE. MAY 27 8:40 → MORE MATE GUARDING OBS ON TAPE ON THIS MISTY FOGY MORNING (HENCE THE LATE START) JUNE 5 5:45 - More mate guarding obs. 6:15 - They don't seem to be mate guarding at all now - ending obs. 10:15 - Checked nest - Yes! - 4 eggs now! Measured legg: 26.2 x 22.5mm. JUNE 12 9:00 - Still 4 eggs. They all look good - nice and warm too! JUNE 17 9:30 - 4 babies! 10.5, 10, 8.5 and 4.5g. Sept 6 14:30 - 2 eggs; 1 looks incubated, so complete? ① 27.0 x 19.75 Sept 14 9:00 - No eggs remaining.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS PLAQUE HN HR 8 April 13:00 - Set ambush to catch B8's for painting. I hope to do mate-guarding obs. on this group after. removing the 1 nestling they now have, thereby forcing a renesting attempt. Caught 2428 replaced L-pink bands w/ L pink-Black → m L-pink-black RED L-pink-black painted green 9 April 13:15 - Caught 2056 painted him blue Removed nestling and placed it in Cavities nest. placed split red-black band on left leg. Took a little bit of blood. Bird # → 2744 24th 22 April 9:50 - Bird in hole - Same hole as previous nest that nestling was removed from. 13:30 - Chaked nest - 6 eggs, including 1 runt egg. (1) 20.15 x 15.3 (2) 24.8 x 20.5 4 May 14:30 - 3 babies 18-23g; 3 eggs (including runt) removed from nest. All Eggs seem to have not developed at all. July 6 16:30 - 5 big nestlings. Largest one 57g smallest one 36 g. All look healthy. July 6 July 15 14:00 - Banded 5 nestlings 41-67g, but healthy #s 2934-2938.
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97 J. HAYDECK 98 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS CAVITY HNHR 9 April 17:30 - Transferred plague nestling into group to force a renest by plague. Cavity now has 4 babies 20 April 10:00 - Removed all 4 nestlings and replaced them with eggs to attempt to make the &B egg loss. (for National Geographic Film crew). Took blood samples from the 4 nestlings. Returned them to nest after visits. 10 July 7:15 - 3 babies - 58-37g. All look healthy. Same hole as 1st nest. 16 July 13:30 - Banded 3 nestlings 54-64g - look healthy #'s 2939-2941 1998 6 MAY 11:15 - 4 eggs, well incubated. (LED ifia) 16 MAY 16:20 - Removed 2 babies to force renest. # 2973 ~ 30 g; Red-L-blue - Moved to Stromberg. # 2974 ~ 30 g; D-blue-white - Moved to Burkoge. No eggs remaining in nest. 1999 6 April 9:25 - No birds seen. No evidence of a nest 21 May 12:00 - Banded & bled 3 babies with Deborah # 3066-3068
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE'S FORMICIVOROUS KNOLL 17 June 12:30 Banded/bled 4 nestlings with Walt. 1995 11 MAY 20:00- Roost watch. Some ind's roosted in Agave; others may have roosted across field towards school hill. 20 Sept. 9:20- Saw 1 individual land in tree by barn. A few new acorns in barn granary; none in granary trees across road.
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97 J. HAYDUCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS KNOLL HNHR 22 April 14:15- legg! In new nest hole in locust tree by lower barn. 23 April 11:00 2eggs -(marked) #’d 24 April 11:30 3eggs 25 April 10:15 4eggs 26 April 10:30 5eggs 27 April 11:00 - 5eggs - So final clutch size ① 25.85X19.9 ② 27.15 X19.75 ③ 27.4x19.9 ④ 27.0x19.4 ⑤ 27.0x19.0 7may 10:15- 2 babies +1 hatching. The 2 babies are from eggs #2 and #3. Egg #1 is hatching. (Pat green paint on one baby, black on other. Marked egg tooth w green paint/on baby that was hatching. 5 MAY 10:30- 3babies, Just left them painted as they were - i.e. with green paint on hatching tooth of one baby. 12 MAY 10:45- placed hatching bands on babies It green on green foot baby (left leg) Black on black foot baby (left leg) -No band on last baby. 28 MAY 14:00- Bandecl 3 babies #2861-2863. 3 July 10:30- It’s a 2nd nest! - 4eggs - well incubated. 6 July 10:15 - 1 baby -13grams. 3eggs. 9 July 10:30 - Still just one baby. 3eggs (removed). 24 July 12:30- Banded the baby. - # 2944.
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98 J. HAYDOCK 99 2000 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS KNOLL HNHR 21 JUNE 9:30 Banded 3 babies #3035-3037. Some acorns remaining. 1999 6 April 9:30 - No birds seen, No evidence of nest. 19 MAY 10:10 - Watt checked nest to see if they have hatched. Nest is empty!! 3 June 13:50 - Joey climbed tree, 5 eggs ① 27.5 x 19.9 ② 28.3 x 20.4 , incubated, probably hatch in 4 or 5 days. 30 July 8:30 - Banded 3 healthy nestlings with Watt. Plenty of acorns remaining in barn. 2000 19 MARCH 12:02 - Lots of acorns, both in barn and locust tree to east of barn. Saw 3 birds, including a ♀ with a red-dark band in her left leg [2333] 5 April 9:40 - No evidence of nesting yet. Several birds seen in locust trees by barn 11 April 10:15 - Male guarding, but no bird seen in a hole 19 April 10:10 - Bird in new hole in locust on saw side of barn, located ~ 18 ft above ground in 4 ft (broken off) limb.
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94 JOSEPH HAVDOCK 915 MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS REFUTE 1 HNHR April 12 Checked new cavity- Nobody answered "hello" I Also checked old cavity same tree - no birds) Above done on tour w/ Walt K. April 17 7:34 Checked cavities- 2 birds left tree as I approached no am. No answer to "hello". Some stores remaining April 21 8:20 Bird in hole (?) (left tree at hole height as I walk around) One other, nd. in tree. In branch facing down Cation, hole faces SW. 10 May 12:30 Nest failed - no eggs or nestlings 12 May 9:30 2 bird flew from tree - but I did not see anybody fly from a hole. Climbed up and found 2 eggs! A new nest?? 14 May 11:30 4 eggs now! ① 24.0 x 19.2 ③ 25.0 x 19.8 ② 23.9 x 19.7 ④ 24.1 x 18.8 14 August 8:10 - Checked holes, nobody seen, no stores of acorns remain in this years nest tree, 1995. 1 April 9:10 - checked holes - saw nobody. 18 April 12:00. Nobody seen in a hole. 23 April 2:30- 5 eggs, 2 developing; 3 no development Measured 1 egg: 25.6 x 20.1 28 April (pm) 5 eggs - checked by Walt: (Bird in hole, May 2 [illegible] ; [illegible] .
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS REFUTE L HNHR 5 MAY. 12:00 - 3 babies, 2 eggs (will not hatch). Weighed one baby: 26g. (~ d old ). Bird in hole when we arrived. 23 MAY 12:30 - Banded/bled 3 nestlings with Walt. 2595: white/Dblue m (Lblue red-white(n)/m 2596: orange-green / White. 2597: black/Dblue-yellow(m) Dblue-yellow(n) / m 24 JUNE 9:10 - Adult 8 in this years nest hole. Another bird flew from granary tree. 26 JUNE 9:15 - checked nest, 4 nestlings, [illegible] 27g - (largest nestling) 7 July 12:30 - 4 nestlings banded/bled w/ Walt. A few acorns remaining in granary
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96 T.HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS REFUTE I 2 April. 3:40- Saw 2 birds, but nobody in a hole. 12 April 9:55 - checked group to see if Hay-Bloom Female is still hanging out here - Female seen - plus at least 2 males. - Possibly nesting - Very interested in hole located ~2-feet below the nest hole from previous year that faces down canyon. 12 April 10:55 - Open hole - more less complete, but nothing inside. 16 April 13:00 - Started obs from blind to see if birds have started NEST-BUILDING- 14:30 - End Obs. Never saw a bird, 12 August 6:15 - Saw 3 birds. Nobody seen in a hole. No new acorns yet. 5 Sept 7:30 - No birds seen.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS CECN REFATEL HNHR 13 April 7:00 Found 4 dead babies, 3 in nest, one on ground. They probably died because they were not brooded O/N. Walt scared bird from hole during roost watch to determine which male was incubating. 26 April 15:00- They have a new nest in a new hole in their traditional tree (North side) opened and found 3 fresh eggs. 1 MAY 11:00- 6 eggs now; bird in hole when trapped. (1) 25.65 x 19.3 16 MAY 14:30 - 5 healthy babies; no eggs, so likely that all hatched and 1 baby did not make it. Largest baby 32g. 11 July 8:50- Bird in hole and I can hear small babies. Same hole as first nest (failed), 2nd successful nest 14 July 10:45- 2 babies, about the same size, larger ( slightly) is 44g. 24 July 11:00- Banded 2 nestlings - one very small (40g) the other about normal size (74g) # 2942-2943
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98 HAYDOCK 99 MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS CENTRAL CANYON HNHR MAY3 15:25 Bird in hole - granary tree, new hole. MAY6 11:45 Bird in hole - granary tree. Northside of tree 4 Eggs ①24.55 x 19.85 ; Early incubation. ②25.30 x 20.30 1 JUNE 13:10 - 2 babies banded. #3015 and 3016 Some acorns remaining 999 28 April 9:40 Walt opened new hole in central / Canyon traditional tree - Hole faces blom pond, and is north facing tree branch. ①25.9 x 19.6 ②24.8 x 18.8 5 eggs - Early incubation. Acorns remaining 28 June 6:20 - No evidence of a second nest. Some acorns remaining.
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2000 HAYDOCK MECHANERPE FORMICIVORUS CENTRAL CANYON HWHR 20MARCH 13:40- Plenty of acorns remaining (80% full) No birds seen; no evidence of a nest. 5 April 11:47- 4 birds seen in granary as I approached. Crow in granary as well- now's attempting to make the crow leave. No evidence of a nest. 4 MAY 12:20- Banded 3 healthy nestlings with Walt. Acorns remaining in granary.
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94 95 HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS 1500. HNHR 19 April 16:42 Woodpeckers in tree - did not see any in rest hole. Stores remaining. 10 May 9:30 - 3 nestlings (NOT MARKED) 20g, 20.5g, 21g. 14 June 11:40 - Checked holes in main nest tree - nobody seen. Some acorns remaining 23 June 11:00 - Checked holes in main nest tree - nobody seen 30 June 11:50 checked holes again - hello ?? - nobody. 1995 1 April 11:35 - Plenty of stores. Saw no birds. 17 April 11:40 - Checked holes - nobody seen. 23 April 17:00 - Decided to try removal experiment in this group. Will be removing Bf - to promote replacement and to create group with co-brooding B's. After climbing tree to set ambush, I discover 1 egg (unincubated) and decide not to set ambush. After talking with Walt we decide to delay removal. Part of the problem is that Tim reported 6 birds roasted here last night (less than on field list) so we are not completely sure what group composition is. Tim will observe tomorrow to determine: ① if female lays another egg ② identity of all birds in group 24 April 10:30 - 3 eggs, cool. Set ambush for catching 9 when she enters nest tomorrow after egg laying. 27
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95 HAYDOCK MELANER PES FORMICIVORUS 1500 25 April. 12:00 - Decided to delay capturing female until several days from now. LNNY. 10:00. Arrive to attempt captural of B♀ (1609) for removal experiment / to produce group with co-breedings ♂♂. 2473 - enters hole/incubates several times. ♀ enters. - probably 2472- Capture 2472 - take blood; paint with blue, 1609 Never entered. 17:00- End attempt to capture 1609. Checked nest - 4 eggs 6 MAY 3:40 - Arrive to try to capture B♀ (1609) again, 8 May 11:30 - Arrive to observe power struggle. Walt reports 3 WANTE ♀'s H's are here - Not in main granary (next Adj. tree). Both SHIL and West gate helper females have been seen, (See Walts notes). (SHIL in granary) 12:15 - I move to observe & attempt to ID birds in tree along stream located about 40m downhill from granary. Little activity in this tree; there is a board there but I have not been able to identify it. 1100 - SHIL birds still in control of granary observe blue-orange-blue [2380] 2:20 - The situation is the same as early today. SHIL ♀'s have main granary tree. Identified 6 of 8 helper ♀'s from that group. (see SHIL list) Possible that all 8 are here. WCAT ♀'s (3) are
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS 1500 HNR EMMY (continued) are in trees to N.of granary tree; they occasionally make an attempt to reach the granary, but are chased immediately. 2:35 - Took down net for catching power struggle birds (Caught H?cartier; Wollbibles) 1996 1996 2 April 13:05 - 3 birds seen in main roost tree. No acorns. Big nest cavity full with bees. Possible cavity/hole 3 feet beneath this cavity is in use; but no birds seen in a hole. 18 April 14:30 - Placed 2 feeders on tenken - 1500 is paired with Knoll, which does not have feeders). 19 April 12:00 - Took down feeders because 1500 is a group that Joslue is using for acorn preference. Knoll is now the supplemented group for this pair, and 1500 is the control non-supplemented group.
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97 Haydak 98 MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS 1500 16 April 10:30 - 4 babies that look like they just hatched Largest one only 4.5g! All look fairly healthy. 9 June 1:00 - Walt checked traditional nest hole (bird was in hole) Finds 4 eggs. Fairly fresh (not more than 2 days incubated.) ① 23.6 x 19.5 ② 23.8 x 19.6 20 June 9:30 - 4 babies 4-7g. Bird in hole when I arrived. 9 July 9:30 - 1 baby banded #2920. Acorns remaining. 1998 15 MAY 9:50 - ♀ in hole in traditional nest tree, but new hole. Located on lower horizontal branch that points towards central canyon. 13:30 - Walt opened hole. Finds 4 eggs. Hole very deep. Incubated about 2 eggs. ① 24.5 x 20.4 1 JUNE 12:50 - Walt checked, found 2 babies about 8 days old. Lots of acorns remaining. 15 JUNE 16:40 - Banded 2 babies 3032 and 3033 Plenty of acorns remaining. 1999 6 April 9:35 - No birds seen; No evidence of a nest. 19 MAY 13:00 - Checked nest hole from last year - 5 eggs!! Fresh ① 25.2 x 19.6 ② 25.0 x 20.2 20 MAY 13:25 - Checked nest again. Still 5 eggs.
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31 May - 4 babus hatched; 10g hatched 30 May, still one egg 19 June
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS 1800 HNHR 11April 8:45 ct-blue/orange-green plus one other seen foraging big ook at edge of field. 19April 16:20 Stores remaining. No birds seen in cavities. 10 May 10:15 2 nestling, 1 unhatched, good egg, 2 infertile eggs Nestling weights 4.5g, 6.5g (NOT marked) 14 June 11:45 - Checked holes for renesting - nobody seen Plenty of stores remaining 30 June 11:45 - Checked holes again for renesting - nobody seen 5Aug 19:20 Roost watch. Bird in hole (2nd nest). I watch 1800's main granny tree (1st nest) while Mary watches below at 2nd nest. 2+ birds go roost in my tree in this years 1st nest. Mary reports bird left hole in lower tree; no other birds seen entering hole. 6Aug. 18:00 - Set ambush on 1st nest hole 19:20 - Did not see anyone roost in hole - Bird in hole of 2nd nest. 7Aug. 9:30 - Tied ambush in place. Will try again in a couple of days. 9 Aug 18:30 Set ambush for another attempt. 19:30 - 1 bird C?) went into hole. Mary reports that they wanted to go to their lower nest hole - she scared them away. 10Aug. 4:30 - Ambush failed - no bird in hole and string broke anyway. -yuck.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 Melanerpes formicivorus 1800 HNHR 19 Aug 17:00 Set ambush a lower nest hole. 19:15 - Mary reports 6 birds go to roost in this hole. 20 Aug 5:15 - Ambush successful - caught 6 birds!! including 2 NO BA juveniles: 2559: dgreen-Red (N) [white] 2560 RED-D-BLUE (972-16028) M972-16027 ORANGE) YELLOW/YELLOW 770, 787, 1851, 2560 At least 1 bird did not roost in hole (heard at dawn and saw bird fly into forest (above lower nest tree) previous night. So there are at least 7 birds still in group. 1995 1 April 11:30 - Plenty of stores remaining. Saw no birds in a hole - but one left from near last years early nest. 17 April 10:45 - checked holes Nobody seen 27 April (pm) Checked holes - Nobody seen. 1 May (pm) checked holes - Nobody seen.
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96 J.HAYDAK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS 1800 HNHR 2 April 1:10 - One bird seen in main roost/prancy tree. Lots of acorns. Nobody seen in a hole. 19 April 13:00 - Placed 2 Feeders in main granary tree. Paired group (not supplemented) is School Hill. Both Feeders filled to top before putting in place. (Paired with School Hill as non-supplemented control) 10 MAY 10:15 - 3eggs - fresh 25.8x18.75 15 MAY 8:45 - Still just 3eggs. Incubated. 23 MAY 13:00 - 2 babies; 23g, 17g. No eggs remaining 11 JUNE 14:45 - Banded 2 healthy and big babies. Perhaps they are big and healthy because they are being supplemented with dog food. They also still have some acorns remaining, 19 August 16:29 - 3 eggs. Mid incubation. = 26.2x18.25 23 August - all gone.
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97 J. HAYDOCK 98 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS 1800 4NHR 16 April 15:00 checked holes for birds, nobody seen lots of acorns. 19 MAY 11:00 - One baby just hatched, one egg w/o development one egg that might hatch seen. 9 JUNE 12:30 Banked 1 healthy nestling with walt. #2891 9 July 10:05- Bird in nest hole of this year. Acorns remaining in granary. Walt checked hole and found. ① 2 eggs ① 25.5x18.4. ② 24.8x17.6.- Fairly fresh; could still be laying. 15 July 10:30 - Still just 2 eggs. 32 July 11:30 - One baby just hatched. -check again. 1998 15 MAY 10:15- No birds seen in a hole. Plenty of acorns remaining 1 JUNE 12:50 - Walt checks; finds 2 babies about 8 days old. 5 JUNE 11:00- 3 eggs - fresh/not incubated. One is a run t egg① (18.2 * 14.7); other 2 normal ② 25.1x18.1 15 June 11:00- Nothing left. Nest prob. failed in egg stage. Eggs infertile? (No breeding mate here, so insist or outside mating would have to have occurred. 24 JUNE 12:50- Bird in hole - traditional nest hole. 6 July 13:40- It's a nest! One baby, 2 eggs normal + ① (19.9x15.1) ② 25.9 x 20.25 1 run egg. Baby hatched today, Acorns remaining.
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95 HAYDOCK 96 97 98 MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS HORSETAIL HNHR 1995 3 MAY 12:30 - Bird in hole. (opened by Walt ~1 week ago). Checked - nothing in hole.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS HAY-BLOM HNHR 11 April 9:50 start Observations. orange/d-blue Seen in main gravery ?1? Unbanded & seen with anothe(♀?) ; Both leave after being in short chase. Not sure who was chasing (metal) orange/lt-blue C:??) Saw briefly - ID problematic. This bird was chased by :? lt-blue/m ♀ ? In main gravery, eats acorn; observed for about 10 min; leaves; followed by ?? - These birds are difficult to watch because it is difficult to ID individuals. They don't hope around nearly as much as do curenns, so glimpses of both legs are rare. Activity has shifted to trees farther down hill (about 50m below fence line) I can't see these trees very well; I will move closer. lt-blue/m yellow/by- orange/d-blue (m maure-yellow/white } All three seen in tree 50m from fence * orange / orange-dark metal / orange-dark } Not on list, who is this ?? INTRUDER order(?) [92218 W GAT] This bird chased briefly by??, but later returned to tree w/ breeding female/an molested 12:00 End observation. 12 April, 11:05 - Plenty of stones remain. Saw some inds. fly-catching in tree above main gravery. No birds in cavities(3) - But cavity in upper tree above fence line still looks good for resting. 19 April, 16:50 - Plenty of stones. No birds in cavities.
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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.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS HAY-BLOM HNHR 2 APRIL 1:25- No birds seen at upper tree (above fence). No acorns in upper tree. 10 April 1:45- No bird seen in upper tree hole. 12 Apr. 9:10- Started Obs. to see if UNB ≠ is present. 9:50- Ended Obs. Nobody seen. Checked acorns - Basically none - only shells, but possibly a few (veryfew) good acorns. 19April 13:00- checked holes - Nobody seen. 14:00 - Placed 2 Feeders in main granary tree. (Refute 1 is paired control group - non supplemented) 13 MAY 8:00- Power struggle going on. Set mist net to try to catch some of them. 4:00 Caught 2 birds thus far - # 2529 from knoll and # 2218 from Wgate) Also saw: 2 split bands with light green and white dash abr D blue / m (IF 2348- she was in incubator at CIX power struggle 14 MAY. 4:30- Arrived to help Walt with ambush. At least one bird in hole but cavity is too big and deep (at least 3 feet deep) to reach bottom. So we wait for birds to come out into nest box - And wait - Bird comes out! - but goes back in hole as soon as we approach. Walt set Ambush back to close hole after bird comes out - AV's back - We give up after 4½ hrs. (Note: Ambush was set to try to catch B's copulating, so that mate guarding observation can be done.
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76 97 HAYROCK MELANERPIDES FORMICIVORUS HAY-BLOM HN HR Aug 12 8:55 - Checked several holes - Nobody seen. *1997* 4 April 11:10 - Arrived to observe for mate guarding. Never got a very good look at the birds - they are spending most of their time down fairly far towards cabin. 20 April 12:30 - Checked various holes - No birds seen. 19 MAY 8:15 - 5 nestlings (I think - hard to count because I could barely get my hand in entrance door) Managed to get one out somehow - He weighed 18 g. No eggs remaining. (for sure - I could reach bottom of hole) 9 JUNE 12:00 - Bandeled and Bled 4 healthy nestlings w/ Walt 10 July 8:20 - No evidence of a nest. Some acorns remaining in main granary.
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94 95 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVOROUS LOWER HAYSTACK HNHR 12 April 10:50 - location pointed out to me by Walter. 12:30 Returned with Mark, S. and Jenni to look at nestlings - Four nestlings 1 egg (infertile) Smallest nestling removed by Mark - taken to aviary. 16 May 9:25 Opened hole, found 1 juvenile - # Ran down to lab to take blood at 9:44. No eggs in hole. 10:30 released # 19 June LZiee 3 nestlings: ① Blue 34g ③ RED 31.0g ② White 29.5 14 Aug 10:15 - Nobody seen in a hole, took fallen rope ladder, 1995 April 1 11:25 - Saw one bird, nobody in a hole. Lots of sticks Apr. 17 11:00 - 7 eggs? - counted wrong (Walt counts 6) egg: 25.3x20.3 April 20 12:00 - 4 nestlings, (largest ~25-30g, did not weigh) Added egg, are fully developed broken open. took both eggs. 10 May 13:00 - Banded/Bled 4 nestlings with Jim #'s 2575-2778. 9 JUNE 14:00 - Banded/Bled 6 nestlings with Peter. # 2655-2660 - Lots of acorns remaining.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS LOWER HAYSTACK HNHR. APRIL 2. 1:30 - Male bird in upper hole, last years nest. Checked cavity, but no eggs. Slightly damp inside, but otherwise looks good. 10 April - 1:50 - Checked last years nest hole. Nobody seen. Very few acorns remaining. 19 April. 13:30 - Checked main nest hole - Nobody seen looking out. 24 April 11:00 - Checked main nest hole and looked around at other trees for more holes. No body seen in a hole. I saw 2 birds fly from tree located uphill from main nest tree (towards 1800/ hay-blum) 14 MAY 6:00 - Bird in main nest tree hole again. Wolf charked later today - Nothing inside. 21 MAY 10:00 - 4 eggs now! bird in hole. Incubated, but still look fresh. 27 MAY 14:40 - Bird in hole. Measured 2 eggs: 27.2 x 20.1, 25.4 x 20.0 3 JUNE 13:20 - 3 babies: 26, 22.5 and 22g. All look healthy. No eggs remaining. 12 August 8:45 - Heard some birds on the gazebo side of lower haystack. Nobody seen in a hole. No new acorns in granary 11 September 09:56 - No nest in hole. Dead bird on ground (very decayed) mauve (green) black metal Died in nest.
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97 J. HAYOOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS LOWER HAYSTACK. HNHR April 3 8:45 - Two birds flew from nest tree, checked cavity - no eggs, but ready for eggs. April 4 8:30 - Arrive to attempt male guarding observation. 5 birds seen. So is there a power struggle ? mauve / mauve = (2363) (Bm) / yellow (1521) (Bm) lub. (5406) Birds that were being chased have left, so apparently they were just including temporarily . 9:02 - Started male-guarding observation. 10:32 - Ended. Difficult to obs. only was able to obtain 3 Attendance samples and 1 fly p follow. Female left and males did not follow, so it is unclear if they are in God male guarding. 17 Apr.'l 11:27: 5 fresh eggs. Bird in tree. Ø 23.9 x 19.4 29 Apr.'l 13:30 5 babies - all look fairly healthy. Also BØ 1521 stayed on nest when I climbed up tree, so I caught him. Added 8 new bands and gave him a lot of war paint. on his feet. 19 MAY 9:15 - Band and Bled 5 healthy babies #2832 2886. 10 July 8:25 - No evidence of a new nest. Some acorns in nest tree/granary.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS BLOMONE, HNHR April 12. Checked several cavity - nobody answered. (Above done on tour w/ Walt.) Removed Starling box (2) from territory. 17 April 7:30 checked several cavities - nobody answered 21 April 8:30 checked cavities in several trees: Nobody seen in holes. birds seen in southern most tree. 12 May. 9:15 Checked several cavities - Nobody seen in whole Birds seen in central part of territory, 18:30 Bird flew (from hole ?) from tree on South side of territory. 13 May 9:15 2 Birds in above tree. No birds seen in hole 7 June 8:15 1 birds seen in free on south side of terr. Some trees remain in granary. No birds seen in holes). 8 June. 10:00 - 11:300 bserved 2 indj both fairly inactive - did some fly catching, but do not appear to have g most. 14 June. 10;00 - Checked holes - nobody seen. 20 June. 10:00 - Checked holes - nobody seen - Some acorns remaining 16 July. 9:15 - Checked holes - nobody seen. - A few acorns remaining 14 August 8:20 - Checked holes - nobody seen in a hole, but bird my have flown from hole on south side of tree.- worth checking again. A few acorns still remain.
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95 J.HAYDOCK MECANERPE FORMICIVORUS BLOM ONE HNHR April 1 9:15 - Saw two birds, including possible chase - Possible Saw 3 birds - So possibly a new breeder female is trying to come into this group. April 18 11:55 - Nobody seen in a hole. 5 May 9:45 - Nobody seen. Very few acorns stones remaining 12 June 20:30 - Roost with - No birds seen. 13 June 9:30 - Checked and looked for holes - Nobody seen. I don't see any complete acorns, but there could be a few remaining. 24 June 9:15 - Nobody seen in a hole; one bird flew from granary. Still a few acorns remaining 16 Aug 15:30 - Checked holes - nobody seen - No acorns remaining. 20 Sept 10:00 - No birds seen. No acorns in main granary, On second look, see a very few new acorns After leaving, bird was heard back towards granary
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BLOM-ONE HNHR 2 APRIL 3:30- No birds seen. No acorns in granary 29 MAY 17:00- Set ambush to try and catch unbanded female. No eggs in hole with ambush. Cleared out starling hole located 3m below these roost hole. 31 MAY 20:30- Yes - caught both the male #8314 and the Unbanded Female. Took blood and banded her. She is now bird #2679. 12 August 6:20- No birds seen or heard. No new acorns in granary 5 Sept 7:35- No bird seen or heard. * 1997 * 3 April 10:30- Bird flew from middle hole in rott Walt arrived w/ rope. Checked cavity, 3 eggs ① 26.2 x 19.2 - looks fairly fresh, but incubated. so perhaps the clutch is complete. Cleared out starling nest in cavity above ACW rost that contained 6 eggs. 15 April 10:00- 2 babies 4.5g and 5g; 1 egg - check again to see if batches (look like it will not - blotchy looking) 16 April 13:00- Still only 2 babies, Took 3rd egg. 11 June 16:00- 4 eggs - well incubated; 1 egg with small dent. ① 24.6 x 19.6 - 2nd nest 15 June 16:30- 3 babies 4-9g - Dental egg opened - approx ½ developed. 5 July 17:00- Banded & fled 2 happy babies 291B, 2917. Plenty of acorns remaining
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS BLOMTWO HNHR April 12 Checked cavities in both trees w/ climbing set-up. (Above done on tour w/ Walt) No one appears to be nesting Removed starling box- tree swallows were about to nest in box. -Some stones in lower tree. 8:50 Check cavities in both trees- no birds seen in holes 12 May 9:10 Checked cavities in both trees- no birds seen in a hole. Bird flew from each tree as I arrived 13 May 9:20 Checked cavities again- No birds seen in a hole. 17 June 8:30 - 10:05 Observed from hill side to NE. Obsonal 2 in main granary tree, 1 other ind seen briefly. Checked holes - no birds seen. No stones remaining in main granary. 14 June 10:10- Checked holes- nobody seen 30 June 10:15 Checked holes- nobody seen 16 July 7:25 Checked holes- nobody seen- 14 Aug 8:30- Checked holes- nobody seen, no stones remaining
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95 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BROM TWO HNHR April 1 9:30 - Some stoves - Saw no birds April 4 18:30 Roost watch. We (Jim, Peter, myself) do not see birds enter a hole. Bird did call from tree E of granary tree at roost time April 6 16:00 - [illegible] bird 16:00 - checked 2 holes in tree to E of granary tree. Nothing there. 18:30 - Roost watch. 2+ birds enter upper hole in tree I checked this afternoon. April 7 17:00 - Set ambush at upper hole in tree located 30 m E of granary tree. 18:30 - Roost witch. April 8 4:35 - Palled ambush - worked great. 5 birds in hole - but alas 2 got away as I was removing them. Got 2 unbanded. likely that 5th bird is unbanded (i.e. 3 unbanded in group) 2573 DBLUE / WHITE WHITE / METAL 2574 LT-GREEN / YELLOW RED / M April 18 11:50 - Nobody seen in a hole. 15May 9:30 - 3 birds flew from granary; Nobody seen in a hole. No acorns remaining. 13JUNE 9:30 - See m1? [2344]. One other bird also seen. Nobody seen in a hole 24JUNE 9:30 - Saw 1 bird but nobody in a hole. 10 Aug 15:50 - Checked holes - Nobody seen. 20 Sept. 10:15. No birds seen, no acorns in granary. Saw m/(mauve/black)? [illegible] seen in area between Blumb
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS BLOM-TWO HNHR April 2 3:20 - No birds seen. No acorns in granary Aug 12 6:30- Saw 2 birds, including unbanded ♀. No new acorns in granary. No body seen in a hole 5 Sept 7:40- Saw one bird on top of granary; nobody in a hole * 1997 * 3 April 10:20 - Bird flew from top of tree; no birds seen in a hole. 15 April 10:20 - Bird flew from hole. 6 eggs, early incubation ① 23.1 x 19.1. All egg look pretty fresh. 20 April 14:30- 7 eggs now!! So last egg date is 16 April 29 April 14:30 - Set ambush to capture unbanded birds. 4 babies; 2 unbathed eggs remaining. 19 MAY 6:40 - Banded 3 healthy babies #2829-2831 11 June 16:30 - No birds seen in a hole 15 June 17:00 - No birds seen in a hole 6 July 8:30 - No bird seen in a hole; No acorns remaining in granary/nest tree.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVOROUS BLOMTHREE. HNHR April 12 9:20 Checked cavities - nobody answered - bird flew from tree w/ starting box as we approached, (Not from cavity). Removed starting box, April 21 9:05 Checked cavities - no birds seen. April 22 15:20 5 eggs. No birds flushed from cavity. ① 25.1 x 19.3 ③ 24.3 x 19.2 ⑤ 23.8 x 18.4 ② 24.1 x 19.5 ④ 24.7 x 19.6 Eggs fairly fresh, May 11 9:30 5 babies ① 32g L blue ③ 28.5 or ⑤ 21.0 NOBA ② 30.0 Yellow ④ 25.5 pink 14 June 10:20 Checked hole in nest tree - nobody seen. Plenty of acorn stores remaining in granary. 30 June 10:25 Checked holes - nobody seen. 16 July 9:35 Checked holes - nobody seen - A few acorns remaining in granary. 14 Aug 8:40 NOBA ♂ adult lands in top of nest free with green acorn. Nobody else seen, no stores remaining.
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95 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BLOM THREE 1 April 9:40 - No bird seen in a hole. Lots of acorns. 18 April 7:00 - Nobody seen in a hole 18 April 11:45 - Nobody seen in a hole 21 April 11:10 - Checked holes. Nobody seen. 15 May 9:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen in a hole. One bird flew from granary. Lots of acorns in granary. 23 MAY 20:00 - Roost watch - Nobody roosted in main tree. Heard some individuals toward Oktomal. 6 JUNE 11:30 - Checked holes - Nobody seen in a hole. Observed mauve/yellow in main nest tree - [2470] Lots of acorns remaining 13 JUNE 10:20 - No birds seen. Acorns plentiful. 24 JUNE 9:35 - Saw 1 bird, but nobody in a hole. 10 AUG 16:00 - Saw 1 bird in top of nest tree. Nobody seen in a hole; a few acorn stones remaining 20 Sept 10:25 - Possibly saw [illegible] in area between blom 2 & blom 3 - but prob a Blom 2 bird One new, broken open acorn seen on granary. No old acorns (a fair % of old still left)acorns No birds seen at granary / nest tree.
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS BL0M-TREE HNHR April 2 3:10 - No birds seen. No acorns in granary August 12 6:45 - Heard a woodpecker as I approached. No new acorns; nobody seen in a hole. S Sept 7:45 - No birds seen or heard. *1997* 3 April 10:10 - No birds seen. 15 April 11:00 - 3.5-10.5g nestlings - 5 of them! 4 MAY 13:00 - 4 healthy babies banded and bled #2758-2761 Transferred 2761 to cavity to help out Kerthmond Karl, (to prevent fledging too early so that they could do additional filming) 9@ MAY 10:00 Returned baby 2761 to nest - lost 12 grams of weight in the last 6 days. 6 July 8:45. 2 babies just hatched + 1 egg that looks like it is OK and may still hatch.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS GAZEBO 10 April Started obs. @ 9:00 Ø Ø3 Ø4 STUMP Ø1 Ø2 Ø7 ROAD 2 unb. Ø's pecking/drumping on central Ø6 trunk of tree 1 Presumbid: Rd / mt ? / gr } W / ? Both obs. in tree 2 [ ] [ ] Activity fairly high-saw about 8 chases in first hour of observation presumbid: Rd / ?/ ? / ? } Wt / mt ? / ? Both in tree 2, [ ] [ ] Ended obs. at 10:00 Started Obs. at 17:15 Rd / Y ? / ? Flies to tree 4; leaves; no others w/ her. [ ] Fairly quiet this evening - (e.g. watched ind. 15min and it never moved) At least 7 birds still in terr. - Saw 4 in tree 2 3 in tree 1 One ind. (?id) flew from tree 2 to tree 1-several chases many whas.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS GAZEBO HNHR 10 April Rd/Y1 ?/? Obs. in tree 2 (see prev. page map) Mv/Rd ?/? Obs. in tree 4 (" " "") 3 ind (?id) leave tree 4, fly west at 18:00 2 ind return (18:15) wt/mt ?/? Mv/R ?/? ?/? End obs. at, 18:30 29 April 17:00 W/rw(CN) ♀ 17:30 End obs. 29 April Back again to identify which ♀'s are breeders in group now. 7:50 Starting observation. 8:20 Starling in cavity on west side of tree w/ nest hole checked by Walt. - feeding nestlings 8:32 Mv/Rd ?/? [♯2260, (1500)] 9:52 nw(N)/? [♯2283, (1500)] 9:44 white/d-green 3PK(N) ♀ [1808] 9:45 red/yellow ?/? [♯2283 (1500)] 9:54 white /rw- 9:59 white /mt ?/? ♀ ←same [2259](1500) 10:00 1t.green /by(N) ♀ ⬅ bird 10:15 - End obs. ♀ checked hole in tree w/stp from black. Hole in limb facing east, underside, 1500 ♀'s appear to have won breeding position. Older breeder ♀ never seen.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS GAZEBO HNHR 30 April 15:00 Arrive to check again on what up with this group. Only saw old breeder male 1808. Are 2311 and 2312 around?- Any mate guarding? 15:21 ♀ RED/YELLOW [2283] 15:24 ♂ ? / ? white (dgreen-BPK(N) [21808] 15:32 ♂ nw. FORARE [2283] 15:52 ♂ white (dgreen-BPK ? 1. [1808] 16:05 ♀ white/(m?) [2259] 16:10 ♀ < green/blik wt(N) [2259] 16:50 ♀ mauve/RED ? 1.? [2260] 17:00- End obs. STILL have not seen 2311 or 2312-but I'm not convinced they are not here, check again. 5 May 9:10 Arrive to observe for 2311 and 2312 10:00 saw only 2 birds; unable to ID; Use blind. 6 May 7:50 Arrive; set blind; Observe for 2311 and 2312 Observed: 2260; 2283; 1808 9:07 2283 looks in hole (with string going going just above) 9:10 End obs. 12 May 9:00 Bird in hole. that string for rope 11:30 - 5 eggs including 1 "runt" egg ① 25.5 x 19.1 ③ 24.0 x 18.5 ⑤ 21.1 x 17.1 ② 24.6 x 20.4 ④ 23.0 x 19.6 13 May 10:00 - Arrive; set blind; Begin observation. 10:05 ♀, HO; 10:06 ♀, HI; 10:16 ♀ leaves 10:16 #2259♀- Arrives, enters hole. 10:18 #2283 enters hole. 10:20 ♀ leaves. 10:29 Obs. ♂1808 in adj. tree. 11:06 ♀ 2260 enters hole.
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94 95 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVOROUS GAZEBO HINHR 13May. 11:10 (Continual) Ending observations. Again, as I recall from previous obs (29 April-6 May), I saw some aggression between two birds. One bird chased the other briefly. I have never been able to ID either of the individuals involved, but I wonder if these birds are the breeder male etc (1808) chasing a former helper male (2311 or 2312), and keeping them away from the new breeders 9's—and making it so that I have not been able to ID either 2311 or 2312 since before 29 April. 14 May 9:15 6 eggs, 4 in hole when I arrived ① 25.5x19.1 ③ 24.2x18.7 ⑤ 21.2x17.2 ② 24.7x20.5 ④ 23.5x19.8 ⑥ 23.8x19.7 14 Aug 10:15—check holes—nobody seen; a few stores of acorns remaining 1995 1 April 11:05—lots of stores—Saco several birds; nobody in a hole. 17 April 11:30—checked holes—Nobody seen. 27 April Attempted to check hole in tree located on W side of pond. Unable to climb—too much poison oak, and unable to throw string over high enough branch. 6 MAY 12:15—8 eggs, warm, early Inc. ① 25.6x20.2
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS GAZEDO HNHR. 31 MAY 14:30- Add AVIARY nestling (from MURF) to nest. 2 healthy nestlings in nest prior to addition, so now there are 3. This Aviary bird has hatching bands on both legs and ID# 2610. Took one tube of blood in case something happens to this bird-take another when banding/bleeding remaining 2 nestlings that actually belong to GAZEDO. 5 JUNE 15:30- Banded/bled 3 nestlings. 1 of 3 2610 of those nestlings was a transfer from (MURF) The other two, 2623 and 2624 are GAZEDO Sledging babies. A few acorns remaining in granary. 20 Sept 10:50- No birds seen; a few acorns (new ones!) in granary next to nest tree.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS GAZEBO April 2 1:45 - Saw 2 birds, but nobody in a hole. A few acorns remain in granary closest to road. April 6 Roost Watch. Checked last year's nest hole - bird looking out! So they are roosting in this cavity? April 21 12:30 - Female outside of last year's nest hole looking in. 18 MAY 10:50 - EGG #3 PIPPED; did not check others. Still 7 eggs, including runt egg. 21 MAY 9:30 - 4 babies; largest - 13g; no eggs remaining. And as a bonus the breeder #2260 was in the hole when I checked the nestlings. 12 August 8:05 - Bird in hole! Flew from hole before I could see if it was a juv. or adult. 10:15 - Walt climbs up tree. Finds 9 eggs!! (1 is grunter?) ① 25.0 x 19.6 ② 26.0 x 20.1 Clutch complete probably; a couple of days old? 22 August 10:50 - 7 live babies, + 1 dead one in nest, no eggs Range of weight of 7 live babies 4-12g. Took tissue from dead nestling #2716 10 Sept 16:05 - 3 babies. Banded # 2718-2720 Still need to put on metal bands (c 902- 2718 orange-dble / Metal / yellow M#→42789 2719 metal / black M#→902-42790 2720 yellow / d blue-white (w) M#→902-42791
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97 J. MAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS GAZEBO HNHR April 3 9:10 - Bird flew from near nest hole of previous years. - 14 April 11:15 - Still 7 eggs. Bird in hole when I arrived 20 April 1:30 - 6 babies now, no eggs remaining 4.5g - 11g. 4.5g nestling does not look too good. Likely that 7 egg hatched and [illegible] baby died. 7 MAY 15:00 - Banded and bled 5 healthy babies. #2782-2786 11 June 15:30 - 2 babies hatched today. 4 eggs - all look fertile. (1) 24.6 x 19.3. (2) 24.1 x 19.4 16 June 9:30 - Bird in hole. I can hear the one remaining baby. 22 June 16:40 - Nest failed - One dead baby in hole - died w/in the last day or so, for no apparent reason. took tissue from dead baby #2902 5 July 8:40. Bird in hole; traditional hole. Checked at 9:30. Found 6 fresh eggs 18 July 7:00. 5 babies: Largest 14g. (3 about this size + 2 smaller ~5g that probably will not make it) Acorns remaining. 4 August 16:00 - Banded and bled 3 babies w/ Erin. They are small for their age (20 d old now) and there is a big difference in size between the largest and smallest (70-4g) but they look relatively well fed, especially compared to nestlings in other late (summer) nests. Some acorns still remaining. #2951-2953 23 August 10:00 - Found fledgling on ground - too weak to fly. #2953. Can see another baby that is still in nest hole. They are very late to fledge. - Acorns remaining.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVOROUS Los Arbolitos HNHR 5 may 10:00 Bird in hole in tree on border of GAZEBO/ CU GRANDE territories. 17:45-18:30- started to open hole (2 sides) 6 may Opened Hole 10:30 - 4 eggs fresh ① 25.4x19.0 ③ 26.5x18.7 ② 20.5x17.5 ④ 24.3x19.7 11:40-12:20 Observed from blind- Nobody came 7 may 15:30 6 eggs now. marked additional 2 eggs 8 may 11:30 Started observation from blind. 11:30 ♀ HO (white line broken at bottom) 11:45 D BLUE /m ?/? ♀ enters 12:20 ♀ leaves end obs. 15:00 Start obs. 15:02 ♂ leaves 15:02 ♀ arrives m/dark ?/? (looks like above ♀) 15:45 ♀ leaves 15:45 ♂ arrives by-10 (m) 16:10 ♂ leaves 16:50 ♀ arrives D BLUE /m both split bands (saw it-blue) 17:10, end obs. 17:30 - Checked hole - 7 eggs - marked 7th egg. 9 may 10:08 Start obs. 10:43 DBLUE/m ♀ enters 11:00 by-10 ♂ arrives looks in leaves 11:01 ♂ looks out / (leaves. 11:05-11:20 changed position
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94 95 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS Los Arbolitos HNHR 9 May 11:20 Obs. continued ? / ? I-BLUE-D-BLUE/RED-BLUE ♀ enters. 11:59 ♀ lv. 12:15 End obs. 13 May. 11:30 8 eggs, ♀ flew from rest ① 25.4x19.0 ④ 24.3x19.6 ⑦ 24.6x17.5 ② 20.5x17.5 ⑤ 24.3x19.5 ⑧ 26.5x18.5 ③ 26.5x18.6 ⑥ 24.7x18.8 Note: 1-4 measured on 6 May too. 9 June 13:00 - Banded/bled 5 nestlings w/ Wait. 13 Aug. 15:15 - Arrived to set ambush, 5 birds flushed from hole including ? , ? [2095]. Set ambush, but nobody returned to roost. 14 Aug 10:05 - fixed ambush so that it could not fall. Will try again in a few days. 1995 1 April 10:50 - No birds seen in a hole. 17 April 11:20 Nobody seen in a hole. Good supply of acorns in granary by road. 27 April (PM) Charred hole - Nobody seen. 6 May 12:15 - 2 eggs - Not incubated; cool. Saw bird fly from near/in hole as I approached. 9 May 15:15 Seggs - Warm, bird flew from hole. 12 May 14:30 Seggs - Warm. Measured①: 24.9x18.7 11 June 14:30 Banded/bird 3 nestlings, Some acorns in granary locked along road.
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERES FORMICIVORUS Los Arbolitos HNHR 10 AUG - 17:00 - Checked holes - nobody seen in a hole - 3 birds seen in granary (located towards CUGANDE). No acorns remaining in granary 20 Sept 10:45 - One bird seen on entering cavity. A few new acorns in granary tree. 1996 April 2 2:15 - No birds seen. No acorns in granary located towards dirt road. April 6 6:45 - Roost watch. Birds use last year's nest hole. April 7 4:45 - Came to set ambush to catch (867). Found her dead in cavity. She must have died within the last few days. So probably I did not see 2 birds enter roost on April 6. April 21 Nobody seen in a hole. (12 August) 7:30 - No birds seen or heard. No new acorns in granary. 22 August 10:45 - 4 eggs, incubated. ① 25.4 x 18.0 August 12:30 - 3 nestlings 14, 15.5 and 11g 4 Sept 11:30 - Caught unbanded ♀ at nest. #2721 Mauve-Yellow / Yellow-Mauve 19 Sept 9:00 - Arrive to band babies. Found starling in nest with babies!! Was this starling feeding or perhaps being fed? Lisa reported very loud begging calls in prev. feeding with
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPIDES FORMICIVORUS Los ARBOLITOS HNHR April 3 9:15 - Checked nest hole from last year - no birds seen: April 14 12:00 - Checked nest hole - No birds seen 15 April 12:15 - Bird in hole - checked - No eggs, but ready (6 April 15:30 - Still no eggs. (No bird in hole when I arrived) 23 April 14:30 - 3 eggs now - fresh; bird in hole when I arrived. 26 April 15:30 - 4 eggs - Bird in hole. 25.15 x 19.8 6 MAY 15:30 - 4 babies, all about the same size (5-6g range) 27 May 15:30 - 4 babies handled - all healthy and happy # 2854-2857. 5 July 9:15 - Nobody seen in a hole; Saw adults fledgling in granary tree; Plenty of acorns remaining. That hole in this tree again soon - it look good.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS CV GRANDE HNHR 11 April -5 eggs (Watt checked). Look fairly fresh: Bird left hole when we arrived. Difficult but possible to reach eggs Watt cut an access hole to make easier. 16 April 18:30. Roost Watch. (Eggs removed by Watt) 5 (?) birds in hole in roost tree located East of main granery tree. Difficult to get accurate count because birds went in/out/in/etc. 17 April. Attempted mate guarding watch. Observed the following birds in main granery: 8:20 orange-blue/m [1616] ; 8:24 red/m [2026] 8:24 2026 chase ?? around twice and out of granery tree. 8:40 m/dgreen black/? [2172] 8:42 3 ind's chase ?? from granery. 8:45 orange-blue/m ?/? [1616] 9:16 2026, 2172, 1616 Spend most of the time in the main granery, but neither male 1616 or 2172 follows female 2026 when she leaves granary tree. 9:45 For example: 2026 flies from granary tree ~1min later 2172 follows. Another time 2026 flies - nobody follow within two minutes. 10:00 red-green [E4-blue] [2038] 10:20 D-blue/m [2295] 10:41 3 or 4 birds chase ?? from granary tree. 10:50 2026 leaves MG (= main granery); nobody follows within 1min. 11:04 2026 leaves MG; nobody follows within 1min. 11:05-10 Birds BB, PP visit nest hole several times. Form's wood chips.
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94 JOSEPH HAYOOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS CV GRANDE HNHR 17 April (cont.) 9:50 Saw ♀ + ♂ go into nest cavity, ♀ 2nd, ♂ left first after 30 sec - 1 min, ♂ left 1 min later, unable to identify ♂ 10:20 dk-blue / m ? in main granary [2295] 10:30 midgreen black? in main granary [2172] 10:41 3-4 birds chased ? 10:43 orange-blue/m and ? / ? together. [1616] and orange-lt-blue main granary [2295] orange-lt-blue/m mauve? [1616] 10:50 2026 leaves main granary no one follows w/in 1 min 11:04 2026 leaves main granary none follows w/in 1 min. 11:05 orange-lt-blue/m looks in nest hole. 11:14 ♂ removes wood clips from nest hole. 11:15 ♀ enters nest cavity leaves. 11:17 4 bird return from nest tree to granery tree. 11:18 3 birds flew to west of nest - too far to obs. 11:22 See that bk/dkgreen [2172] remained at granary. 11:23 ♀ returns [2026], to main granary 11:24 See orange-lt-blue/m [1616] in main granary w/♀. [2026] 11:25 [2026] has been doing a lot of fly-catching throughout observation 11:43 [2172] enters nest cavity, ~30 sec (after [2026] looks in, stays ~5 sec. then leaves. ~30 sec (after [2172] leaves. 11:45 Ends obs. In general ♂'s do not seem to be mate guarding, but group is more or less staying together in the same tree (i.e., within a few minutes of one leaving others will follow - this does not happen within seconds usually)
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS QU GRANDE HNHR 17 April Continued from previous page. 11:43 ♀ and ♂ Enter nest cavity, ♀ entered 2nd, Both stayed about 30sec; ♂ stayed 1min more after ♀ left. 11:45 End obs. Males do not seem to be male guarding, but group does more or less stay together. 18 April. Caught 5 in coast (Mark) Released 2026, 1616 at dawn, released 2295 at 5:45 Held 2038 (removed to aptivity until after egg laying) 18 April 9:45 Power struggle—at least 10 birds in granery with constant chasing. 10:58 2 unb. ♀'s 10:59 [2172] green 11:02 pink [2026] 11:07 orange/blue-wt(N) [2295] 11:22 m/red-wt(N) 11:22 m/green 11:32 orange-lt blue/m [1616] CVGR 11:46 orange (red-wt(N), ♀ [?♀ cr/r-w(N) #2053, CVI] 11:48 m/white 11:49 yellow/d-green-orange 11:56 by-/yellow (yellow) ♀ [♀2336 MPHF] 11:59 red/lt-blue ♀[♀2151 Murf] 12:00 3 unb. ♀'s seen at once. 12:40 m/wt 12:40 yellow/d-blue-orange [♀2081 MPHF] 12:41 dk-wt/yellow 12:41 m/white [♀2336 MPHF] 13:19 End Obs. All four group members (2038 remained) actively chasing intruding ♀'s, mostly however 2026 is chasing all chasing in main granery.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORAX CV GRANDE HAWHR April 20 by.14 m1? [2336] and [2081](Yellow) both from 8:00} MPHf in cv grande grainery. Several other intruders doing fly-bys. 7:50 Set net to catch intruders w/ Mark. 8:10 ? /m orange (d blue-white) [2295] 8:25 Caught 2081, held. April 22 8:00- Power struggle continues, dblue/m ?/? [2295] 8:05 green [2172] 8:06 pink [2026] 8:12 white (red-blue) ?/? ↓ same bird. [2253, PLQE] 8:14 yellow/m orange-blue/m ?/? [1616] 8:15 black stripe white(d-blue)♀ red-blue 8:19 yellow/m ,♀ orange/blue/m ?/? [1616] 8:20 white/red-blue ?/? (old green paint) [2253] 8:24 ♀ white/red-blue - [2253] yellow/m is being chased by several group members; keeps returning to upper most branch in grainery. Several other birds (2-4) in group; mostly doing fly-bys. 8:45- End obs. No others birds except white/red-blue able to stay in granary. April 22 Set ambush to catch/remove 2172 (Walt).-Later that (with M. Stark) might we decide to postpone capture since ♀ has lost nearly 15g defending her breeding position. April 24 Remove ambush. (1-3) 18:00 - Some intruding ♀s still in territory. None able to (and and stay in grainery before being chased. Power struggle seems to be winding down.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPIES FORMICIVOROUS CU GRANDE HUNHR 8 May 9:00 - Still some chasing in granary tree Blue-Dgreen/Metal RED 1 by-(N) ♀ (green paint?) 22957, 20269, 16167 ? / ? mauve 1m ? / ? RED / GREEN (green paint)? Unb ♂(S) 2 (mostly staying 40m from granary tree) M/C-Blue ♀ ? / ? 0 / C-Blue ♂ ] same bird? 10:30 - Fairly quiet now, but ♂ 2026 still chasing. 15 May 19:00 Unable to find where birds are roosting, but there must be a hole in the forest to the E of dirt road. 14 Aug 9:40. A few acorns remain in main granary. 1995 1 April 10:40 - Saw several birds in granary. No birds seen in a hole. Lots of stores. 16 April 10:40 - Checked holes. Nobody seen. 27 April (pm) - Checked holes- Nobody seen 11 JUNE 16:00 - Juv. in this years nest hole looking out. This bird should have fledged ~JUNE 1, ☐ There is not a second nest started in this hole. 29 JUNE 10:50. banded/bled 4 nestlings, #2648-2651 with Judy and Ken. 10 Aug 17:00 - Saw 3 birds, but nobody in a hole. Some acorns stores remaining
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96 J. HAYDOCY MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS CV GRANDE HNHR 2 April 2:35- Fair amount of acorns remaining. Saw 2 birds, but nobody in a hole. 10 April 8:30 - Watts finds bird in hole; last years nest Tree/hole in live oak NW of granary tree. 11 April 13:40 - Watts reports 6 eggs. Incubated. Measured 2 eggs: ① 24.9 x 20.8 ② 25.8 x 20.5 All seem normal 18 April 13:44 NESTLINGS 3 / 1 UNHATCHED EGG FOUND. WEIGHTS: ~26.0 (7 day old) ~24.5 (Band on MAY 2) ~22.0 ~20.5 12 August 12 August 7:40 - One bird flew from granary granary. No birds seen in a hole. No new acorns 22 August 9:10 - Nobody seen in a hole.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS CW GRANDE HWNHR April 3 9:30: Bird flew from near hole in tree on CNIEBO/LARB side of territory. Could not see if bird was in hole, but there is a nice looking hole in this tree now. 14 April 11:45 - Saw 2 birds in above ↑ tree. Nobody seen in a hole 16 April 11:50 - Birds in tree again but I did not see anybody in a hole. 6 MAY 11:30 - Bird in hole in tree made into granary by us after the granary was cut down. 7 MAY 16:30 - Opened new hole (Not really a new hole, but there was a previous hole into this cavity that had completely grown over). Found 3 fresh eggs, so they are probably still laying. 14 MAY 16:40 - Still just 3 eggs. Bird in hole when I arrived ① 24.7 x 19.2 All Eggs look infertile. 22 MAY 12:30 - No eggs remaining - No evidence of why not failed but, of course, eggs looked infertile anyway. 22 June 16:20 - 3 eggs again in the same hole. One piped (or dented?) so they may be about to hatch. 23 June 9:15 - 3 babies. Hatched recently, (i.e. with last 1/6hr) Acorns remaining in granary pieces we put up in this tree. 5 July 9:30 - Babies still must be OK - I ran hear them. 12 July 8:30 - Caught Unbanded breeder ♀ at nest. #2926. 15 July 11:00 - Banded 3 nestlings. #2931-2933.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICVORALS MURF HNHR 12 April 10:20, Some stones left. No birds responded to hello 18 April Nest Watch 7:00 Started Obs. from hill side 7:15 moved closer 7:15 or / mt [1826] 7:34 See 5 birds at once. 7:34 mv/mv, 87 [2341] 7:38 m/red(?) ? [2339] 7:43 Chase intruder from territory. 8:07 Many chases - seem to be > 6 birds around? 8:07 or / m [1826] 8:33 dgreen-red/ < blue [1813] 8:40 dblue-green/green-wt(N) [1826] 8:56 8, green-butt, badly infected/swollen left foot Unable to use at all - dangles. difficult for him to move on tree. poss [illegible] Not (813) 9:09 mt/dk pink-butt. [1813] 9:13 mauve(mauve) [2341]- infected left foot bird. 9:25 m/ dblue [1954] 9:30 End Obs. - Males follow 1826 fairly closely - They stayed with her most of the time; but difficult to identify who is who among 2 males. - In general I was consistently seeing 3 birds fly together. 19 April 17:50 Started Obs. of nesting holes. ( 18:00 Bird went in hole on west side of tree.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVOROUS MURE HNHR 20 April. 4 eggs (checked by mark). Too deep to reach.-may need more cutting to get to. Look fairly fresh. 21 April Nest watch 9:40 started obs. (12:40 - Ended Observation) 9:55 ? leaves 9:59 ? chased from nest tree, 10:13 ? enters hole, 10:20 mt [1813] looks in leaves. 10:40 back [2341] looks in leaves 10:40 & looks out, goes back in 10:42 [2341] looks in/leaves 10:45 Continued observation on tape. Tape fucked up - can't transcribe 22 April 9:25 start observation. 9:31 - 2341 - looks in leaves. & looks out, returns. 9:44 2341- enters cavity, & leaves (?id?) 9:49 [1813] looks in, leaves, 9:52 [1954] lands on branch w/ nest hole/leaves 9:55 ? arrives; & leaves. 10:00 ? leaves. 10:08 [1826] enters nest. 10:25 & leaves[1826] w/[1954] waiting at hole. 10:25 [1954] enters. 10:56 (1954) leaves, ([illegible]) 11:02 ? enters 11:10 ? leaves. [1111 ? enters
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS MURE HNHR 22 April (continued) 11:20 ♀ looks out, go back in. 11:24 ? enters 11:45 2341 goes to hole; leaves 11:46 1825 " " " 11:53 ♂ leaves [1813]? 11:53 [1826] enters. 11:54 [2339] looks in/leaves 12:04 2341 looks in 12:04 ♀ leaves 12:05 ? enters 12:17 2341 arrives/leaves 12:19 ♂ looks out/back in 12:24 ?♀ arrives/leaves. 12:25 End Obs. 26 April 17:00 Removed 5 eggs. Dropped one-lost. 4 remaining eggs placed in incubator. 1 May 14:00 - Set walkin trap for release w/string from blind. Want to catch 1954. 16:10 No woodpeckers have visited near trap. were. Magpies interested, but did not go in. Ending attempt. 3 May 18:30 Ambush set at nest hole by Watt. I watch to roast. No birds!! Light on holes in nest tree (including nest hole w/ambush) and holes in tree down slope bring no birds looking out. 5 May 11:30 2 eggs (last years nest hole, uphill side of tree) Marked eggs "1" and "2"; did not measure.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS MURE HNHR. 6 May 3 eggs. Marked 3rd egg. (11:00) 7 May 4 eggs Marked 4th egg (16:00) 11 May 6 eggs - removed to start experiment (10:30) (Subordinate breeder mole removal) ① 25.6 x 19.3 ③ 24.8 x 19.0 ⑤ 26.5 x 18.9 ② 25.3 x 18.7 ④ 25.2 x 19.2 ⑥ 26.7 x 19.4 12 May 19:30 3+ birds roost in 1st nest hole. 13 May 16:30 Set ambush (Wall) 1st nest hole 19:00 Ambush fell - reset, but nobody went to roost in hole w/ambush. 14 May 10:30 Fixed ambush in place so it would not fall 19:45 Reset ambush. 19:30 Saw only one birds go to this hole 15 May 4:30 - Only one bird in hole/captured #2339 See notes in Wall's field notes. 8 June 17:00 - Checked holes - no body seen. 10 June 12:00 - Checked holes - nobody seen. 14 June 11:20 - Checked holes - nobody seen - No stores remaining 21 June 7:00 - Opened new hole - 2 nestlings about 16d old. In tree w/ box 233. 25 June 11:30 Banded/bled 2 nestlings w/ Laura + Marcy 14 Aug 9:30 - Nobody seen, no acorns.
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95 J. HAYDOCK MELANERRES FORMICIVORUS MYRE H N H R April 1 10:30 - Some steros, not a lot considering the number of holes in granery. No birds seen. April 14 18:30 - Roost watch with Jim. Jim reports 2-3 birds roost in upper tree, last years lot west. I did not see any birds coost in the lower tree. April 15 16:30 - Set Ambush (Trying to catch for blood sample) 18:30 - Jim reports no birds stayed in hole. Ambush apparently knocked down by bird after 2 had entered c causing 2 that had entered to leave April 16 14:00 - Tied Ambush in place for later attempt. April 17 16:30 - Reset Ambush 18:30 - No birds entered, April 18 10:00 - Took down ambush. Checked holes for birds nobody seen. 7 May 19:00 - Roost watch. Bird goes in hole fairly early (possible nest) in branch on N side of granary tree; later replaced by another bird. Did not see another bird roost in granary tree. 9 May 16:00 - Seggs; measured 1 25.7 x 19.1; Bird on nest when I arrived. Mid-late incubation 12 May 9:30 - Arrive to set ambush. Want to catch 1826; need cDNA/blood sample and want to remove her (BP) to c cause power struggle/group with co-breeding JPs ~ But - There already is power struggle going on when I arrive.
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85 HARDACK MELANERGES FERMICIVORUS MURE 12 MAY (continued from prev, page). Checked nest hole find 4 almost dead and very cold nestlings (1 is just hatching). Took those birds, warmed them up and placed them in the aviary. 11:00 - Return to find things are quiet. Observe the following birds during observation [2341] MAUVE/MAUVE RED/METAL blue-yellow/green-white [1826] BP m/feet/urge (w) [2339] HP Do not see breeder male. Is he gone? 16 MAY 17:00 - Set 2 more ambushers in granary tree. 16 MAY 19:50 - Roost watch. Reset 1 of 2 ambushers. 1 bird roosted in tree below granary tree. Unfortunately ambush fell again as 5 birds were about to enter. Nine apparently went in. 17 MAY 4:40 - Pulled ambush at tree below granary and lower ambush in granary (this year's nest hole). Yes!! Caught one bird at each ambush. #3241 and 1826 and 2339 Took blood sample from both, considered removing #1826 to cause power struggle, but decided not to since this group does not appear to have a breeder ♂, yet they nested (see above, 12 MAY) 31 MAY 14:30 - 2 of the 4 nestlings removed on 12 MAY survived in the aviary. One was left to fledge
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPIDES FORMICIVORUS MURE HNHR 31 MAY (continued) in the aviary. The other was transferred to GAZEBO. Took blood from nestling transferred to GAZEBO (#2610). 5 JUNE 9:30. 2nd MURE nestling that survived and will be left in AVIARY was banded/bled (#2619) 6 JUNE 11:00- checked holes. Nobody seen in hole No acorns stores remaining. * No birds seen. 13 JUNE 10:25-Checked holes, saw several bird in granary tree, but nobody in a hole. Some acorns remaining in dead tree located toward CUL 24 JUNE 10:45- Nobody seen. 10 AUG 16:15- checked holes- nobody seen - Did not check for acorns.
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76 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIvORUS MURE HNHR April 18 11:30 - No acorns. One female seen in lower granary tree. Nobody seen in a hole. April 17 15:00- Put up two feeders; one in nest free located higher on hill; the other in dead granary tree lower down on hill side. No birds seen, but heard some birds towards CVL. Lisa & Joshua have reported that CVL/MURF birds (the few remaining) seem to be a group. April 19 15:00 - Took down feeders and decided to use Los Urbalitos as supplemental group. Too many Crows/Magpies at MURE - Both Feeders empty. 12 August 8:35- No birds seen. No new acorns.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERDES FURNICWORKS MURE HNHR 3 April 9:45 - Bird flew from rear nest hole in upper nest tree. No bird seen in a hole. 15 April 11:45 - No birds seen in a hole 24 April 11:30 - Bird in hole. New hole in tree on CV2 side of ridge. Possible that this is a CV1 bird/hole? Both birds seen. 16 MAY 7:00 - Observation for nesting signs. ♀ L blue / white x Blue (945) - Mostly fly catching ♂ White / D blue (2536) - Feeding 17 MAY 9:00 - Opened hole in tree towards CV2. New hole 4 babies; 3 about the same size at 75g; 1 small nestling at 45g. 20 MAY 16:10 Banded and bled nestlings #2844-2847 23 June 9:30 - Plenty of acorns remaining; no birds seen in a hole; I just seen. 17 July 8:01 - One bird seen in granny tree. Very few acorns remaining.
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94 Joseph Haydock 95 MELANERPES FORMICIVOROUS C VI HNHR 12 April 10:15. Bird flushed as we approached. Hole on S side of tree. good ladder hole. 15:40 Returned with ladder. [illegible] Walt checked nest with mirror - 6-eggs Walt began to cut out block; made one cut along/due left side of hole cmd right side, finally along bottom Egg sizes (mm) (HAVE NOT incubated very long) ① 25.9 x 19.3 ② 26.2x19.5 ③ 25.8x19.7 ④ 24.4 x 18.7 ⑤ 26.1x19.9 ⑥ 25.6x20.0 14 June 10:40 Banded/bled 4 nestlings from hole next to wind mill. 16 July 10:15. checked holes. nobody seen. A few acorns remaining in granary & in first nest tree. 14 Aug. 9:25 - Nobody seen in a hole; Saw one bird in main granary; a few acorns remaining in this tree 1995 1 April 10:30 - Some acorn stores. No birds seen. 18 April 10:30. Checked holes, Nobody seen, 21 April 11:20: Checked hole by windmill, nobody there 27 April (pm) 2 eggs. Hole over stream in sycamore. 6 MAY 11:30 - Still just 2 eggs. Bird incubating when I arrived. Measured 1 egg: 25.9x18.8 9 MAY 15:30 - Nothing left in nest; Checked andor nest for pieces- Nothing Found. 6 JUNE 12:00 - checked holes, Nobody seen in a hole, but looks
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPEs FORMICWORUS CVL JUNEB (continued) they have a couple of new holes in tree along fence, side of tree facing CUV. # Lots of acorns remaining. Heard and saw a couple of birds 13 JUNE 10:20- Checked holes. No birds seen. 24 JUNE 10:45- Nobody seen. 16 AUG 16:10 - Checked holes; nobody seen. Fair amount of acorn stores remaining 1996 2 April 2:45 - No birds seen. No acorns remaining in granary. 12 August 7:30- No birds seen. No acorns
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97 J. HAYDOCK 94 MELANERPEs FORMICIVUS CVL HASTINGS 9 MAY 10:20 - 11:00 - Observed to check for nesting activity- Both birds seen in granary tree several times. They also spent some time near windmill, but obody seen in a hole or carrying food. 1998 8 MAY 12:30 - Saw 2 birds in granary tree- Some acorns remaining. No bird seen in a hole. 15 MAY 12:10 - Saw 2 birds (both by windmill and in granary tree). No birds seen in a hole. 2 JUNE 17:30 - 12:00 - No birds seen in a hole or carrying any food. 2 birds heard but not seen well in granary tree. 9 JUNE 11:20 - 11:50 SEE 8 orange-? /m ? ? [2224] Heard a 2nd bird; saw briefly but could not see any bands. If anything in terms of a nest they could have eggs. Only saw/heard birds in main granary tree. 1999 9 MAY 10:50 Checked nest hole in granary tree- Still empty, See next page
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS CV2 HNHR 12 April 10:00 Bird flushed from tree ("traditional rest tree") Located N. of main granery tree, Plenty ot stores in main granery. 16:30 Walt checked cavity w/ mirror - 2 eggs Bird left as we approached w/ ladder 13 April Walt cut open hole 3 eggs ① 24.1 × 18.7 ② 23.9 × 18.9 ③ 23.7 × 19.2 14 April 11:00: Observed [illegible] [2416] in nest, tree - check holes - no adults seen in a hole, but saw juv. in hole in tree up canon. Plenty of stores remaining. 21 April 11:00 Checked hole in main nest tree - nobody seen. 25 June 15:55 4 EGGS, FAIRLY FRESH ① 23.6 × 19.2 ② 23.3 × 19.6 ③ 23.7 × 19.8 ④ 23.1 × 18.8 30 June 10:50 - Hello 3 - Nobody in hole. 6 July ~10:00 - 4 babies, too small to mark w/ hatching band WEIGHTS 12 14 7.5 13 16 July 16:00 - Could hear nestlings - no adults seen. Plenty of Stores remaining.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDAK 95 MELANERPIES FORMICIVORUS CV2 14 Aug 9:20 - Nobody seen; some acorns remaining. 1995 1 April: 10:20 - Lots of acorns. No birds seen. 13 April 12:52 - Arrive to check on activity of power struggle observed yesterday by W. Koenig. Today, open arrival, things seem quite. Saw 1 bird fly from granary tree when we arrived. A few minutes later heard some calls from last years nest tree. 21 April 11:00 - All quiet. Today is the first nice (sunny/warm) day during the last week, so I was hoping to see more activity in power struggle. Checked holes - nobody seen. 6 JUNE 11:15 - Checked holes. Nobody seen in a hole, or for that matter anywhere. 13 JUNE 11:00 Saw several birds, but nobody in a hole. Found Primary feathers from one bird (adult?) on ground halfway to nest tree in small canyon. Probably did not die too recently - 2-4 weeks ago? - No bands found. Bird may have been molting, or are these fledgling fathers? Lots of acorns remaining 24 JUNE 11:00 - Nobody seen 10 Aug 16:40 - Lots of acorns remaining in granary; 2 birds seen near holes up small canyon.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICI VORUS CV2 HNHR 2 April 3:00 - No birds seen. Lots of acorns remaining in granary near gate. 8 April 12:40 - Saw 3 birds in granary tree. Possible that mate guarding has started as it saw birds following one another. 17 April 16:00 - Put up two feeders with dog food. CV2 is supplemented group, paired with Buckeye that is not being supplemented. Placed feeder in main granary. 18 April 11:00 - Moved feeders to nest tree with many holes. Main granary location interfered with Ginger's magpie nest/feeding observations. 19 April 14:30 - Took down both feeders. Decided to use Buckeye as a supplemental group. Too much interference with crows/magpie in CV area. 21 April - Checked holes. Nobody seen 28 JUNE 19:35 - Arrive to do roost watch to determine which 8? is incubating at night. Bird in hole when it arrived. We watched each other for ½ of an hour than he backed into hole. 30 JUNE 19:25 - Arrived a bit earlier.. Nobody in hole, 19:55 - Red (orange) on left enters - did not see any metal band, so it is likely that it is 2418. - I actually thought the bird had only red (orange) bands on the left leg. 1 July 19:54 - Roost watch. See m / l green - D-green enter [2417] 4 July 19:50 - Another roost watch. Red / (narrow split) roosts this time - [2418]
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96 HAYDOCK MELANERIES FORMICIVORUS CVZ HWHR 15 July 13:15 - transferred 2 ANARY babies - #8711 and #8712 to nest. (Walt climbed up since rope was on small branch above nest). 2 nestlings still in hole - checked one nestling and it looks healthy.
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96 HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS CV2 HNHR August 12 7:15 - No live birds seen, but see wing feathers of a woodpecker in this years nest hole. It looks dead. No new acorns in granary, but they still have a few old acorns. Walt climbs tree and finds 3 dead, dried up babies. It does not look like they grew much after banding, so they died well before fledging [Orange - Dgreen - Dgreen Orange] (see Walt's notes for identities) * 1997 * April 3 Checked nest cavities - No body seen in a hole 15 April Checked holes - nobody seen. 18 April 17:00. Bird in hole - 7 eggs, including 1 rantegy. Complete ?? 20 April 12:45 - Bird in hole - Still 7 eggs, so it was complete. ① 23.9 x 18.4 ② 24.4 x 18.6 ③ 24.9 x 18.6 ④ 24.7 x 18.9 ⑤ 24.1 x 18.9 ⑥ 24.8 x 19.0 ⑦ 21.0 x 17.0 28 April 10:00 - 3 babies, 4 eggs. 3 babies hatched today. 1 MAY 10:00 5 babies - 2 eggs. Took the eggs (included the rant egg and one normal egg.) 20 MAY Banded 4 healthy babies. 19 June 9:15 - No birds seen in any hole; lots of acorns remaining.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVOROUS OK CORRAL HNHR 12 April 9:50 Checked cavities- no birds answered many stores remaining. 13 April Mate guarding observation attempt w/ Walt. Started accross valley-too far to observe id's. I thought I saw 2 ?'s ?'s at same time but distance too far to be sure. Moved accross, closer to main gramey tree. 9:20 ?/? mt lnd-wt [2136] 10:10 Walt saw 2333, 2332 10:20 ?/? mt dgr-nd [2333] 11:02 dgr-nd/dgr [2333] Breeder males and other breeder ? never seen. Birds spending some time in bottom of canyon-possibly in sycamore. 11:05 End obs. 19:00 Watched to roast from accross valley to N. ? Birds@Yastseen an east side of gramey, (18:45) Unable to see where they went to roost. Probably 3 birds in terr.- saw one fly to gramey, than two more shortly later, but had lost track of first. 15 April Watched to roost. No birds seen to go to either of two trees above main gramey. 11 May 10:10 Nobody seen in a hole. 8 June 14:30 checked holes in main gramey- no one observed. Watched from west side on hillside.- Hear birds to N. of gramey. Ind flies from gramey to dead tree N of gramey located close to top of ridge (200) (200m from gramey)
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94 HAYDOCK JOSEPH MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS OK CORRAL 8 June 16:00 Ind. flew from main granary up canon about 400-500 m'. Started to fly back but I lost track of him/her, 16:20 End obs. Checked tree 200m N of main gramary-one yucky hole-but worth checking ?? 10 June 10:15-11:15 Birds spending most of their time in bottom of canon near large sycamore. I was not observing from where I could see this tree, but no evidence of nesting (i.e. carrying food) was observed, 14 June 10:50 - checked holes - nobody seen - some stones remaining in both granary trees. 30 June 10:55 Hello at several holes brought no response 16 July 9:30 - Checked holes in trees on both hillsides - No body seen. Some stones remaining 14 Aug. 9:00 - Nobody seen in a hole. 50% of main granary has fallen. (with a few acorns remaining). Still a few acorns remain in what remains of granary trees.
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95 J HAYDOCK MELIANERDES FORMIDABILIS OK CORRAL April 1 10:00 - Saw several birds, nobody in a hole - Some Staves remaining. May 3 19:00 - Roost watch - No birds seen. 20:00 - Roost watch - Birds (3 or 20) roosted in tree next to main granary tree. JUNE 11:15 - Checked roost hole. Nobody seen. Fair amount of acorns remaining. 13 JUNE 11:00 - Sit down to observe breeding activity. 11:30 - End Obs. Nobody seen. 24 JUNE 11:10 No body seen. 10 AUG 16:30 - checked holes - Nobody seen. Some acorn stores remaining.
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS OK CORRAL HNHR 8 April 12:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen in a hole. No acorns in granary. Heard one bird as it entered territory. 21 April Nobody seen in a hole 12 August 7:00 - No birds seen or heard. No new acorns in granary. * 1997 * 3 April 10:15 - Checked holes in granary tree and in tree above granary tree - No birds seen 10 April 17:30 - Open 2 holes in tree up canon from granary tree - found 2 eggs. 15 April 11:30 - 4 eggs - ① 26.1 X 19.1 24 April 14:20 - 3 babies, leggy. largest baby 11.0g. Not sure if egg will hatch or not - check again. 26 April 12:30 - Still one egg remaining - took from nest. 16 June 10:15 - Bird in hole ~2 feet below hole for 1st spring nest this year. 19 June 9:00 - 4 babies 3.5-7.0g. No eggs remaining Lots of acorns remaining 9 July 11:10 - 3 babies. Fairly small, but healthy.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 96 97 DARK HALLOW HNHR. 12 April 9:50 - No birds seen. 14 August 9:10 - No birds seen, No steros. 1995 1 April 9:50 - No birds seen, No acorn stores. 6 June 11:20 - No birds seen, but fairly new hole in tree closer to OK coral (on side away from decoral). 24 June - No birds/acorns. 1996 2 April 3:05 - No birds seen. 1997 3 April 9:55 - No acorns stored; No birds seen. 1998-1999 - Territory not used.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS 96 LOWER PRAIRIE HE HNHR 19 April 3 eggs. Walter opened cavity. 1995 1 MAY (AM) Checked hole that Tim observed bird in - nothing found. 15 MAY 9:00 - Checked holes - Nobody seen. 1996 11 April 14:15- No birds seen. No acorns in granary by road. No acorns in old granary (close to MPHF) 23 MAY 15:10- See obs. for MIDDLE PRAIRE.-The males from Lower prairie have returned home (they moved [illegible] to LPHF last year) and are now apparently attempting to breed with mom! - yes it is possible INVEST 15 August 11:50- Nobody seen in a hole but there was bird on top of the tree along the road. (Heard MPHF bird up the hill at the same time).
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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
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS MIDDLE PRAIRIE HF HNHR 11 April 14:15 - Checked for nesting. Nobody seen. No good acorns (only old shells) 17 April 17:00 - Checked Put up one feeder in tree above nest tree (the one that you can get to by walking a branch). After putting up this feeder, I noticed a bird in the nest hole (of the above nest tree) so I decided to wait before putting the other feeder up. 18 April 13:00 - Checked nest - nothing inside. No bird seen when I arrived. Lisa put up Feeder in this tree. (2nd feeder for group), 1 19 April 15:00 Checked feeders. One nearly full; the other empty. 23 MAY 15:10. Bird in hole - Last years nest hole, Wolt chaked. Eggs: ① 24.1 x 20.4 ② 24.1 x 20.3 ③ 23.1 x 19.4 ④ (Eggs numbered) 24 MAY 6:40 - Obs. for egg laying (on tape) 4th egg laid by 1533 27 MAY 15:15 - Bird in hole. ④ 24.5 x 20.25 Still 4 eggs: 5 JUNE 11:15 - Still not hatched. (11d after LED was June 4) Eggs look odd.- Rather than a pure white appearance they are somewhat blotching coloring. 6 JUNE 19:20 - Arrive to see if anyone is brooding eggs through the night. Nobody seen entering hole by 20:00 Possible that bird was in hole already, but I doubt it 7 JUNE 8:00 - Bird in hole when I arrived. Still no hatching - Took egg #1. Placed egg in incubator in LAB.
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96 HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPE FORMICIUORUS MIDDLE PRAIRIE HE HNHR 2 JUNE. 9:15-(Continued from prev. page). It seems like none of the eggs will hatch, however, we will leave this egg in the incubator for a couple of days to check to see if it hatches. 10 JUNE 8:30 - Opened egg from incubator - There is an embryo- Probably about 1 week old, but long dead. 11:00 - Collected 3 remaining eggs from nest. They were cool - apparently no longer being incubated and no bird in hole when I arrived. 15 August 7:40 - Checked the usual holes including UPHF holes. Nobody seen in a hole. Heard birds in UPHF trees * 1997 * 21 April 16:30 - Open new hole in tree located on UPHF territory (Middle prairie uses LPHF, UPHF and UPHF now) Set ambush. It would be nice to catch anybody as we been having bad luck catching birds here. There is an unbanded bird (H4) and we want to catch the BF to start a power struggle and/or the BJ's to point them to do mate guarding observations 19:30 - Yet again, another failure with ambushing - Nobody in the hole. 13 MAY 6:30-8:30. Observed for evidence of nesting. Nothing remarkable seen - They were spending some time to the E of central part of terr. (next ridgeline over)
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97 J. HAYDOCK 98 99 Melanerpes ferrugineus MPHE HASTINGS 13 MAY (observation or nesting continued.) But some times they traveled all the way over to the W side of terr, as well as down to LPHE trees abv the road. Saw [illegible] ? (1962) 2males seen, but unable to ID either (prexamb. 1962-? 2076) 16 MAY 12:30 - 5eggs - incubated. ①- 20 MAY 2:30 - 3 babies, 2 eggs; largest baby 12.5g. both eggs 6 June 1:45. - 3 dead babies - died recently (within lastday) All heads/brains eaten by something- Looks gruesome. 6 July 10:30 - 2 babies - each ~13g. No eggs remaining. Lots of acorns remaining 1998 11 MAY 10'50 - 4eggs. Early incubation. Ø 25.3 x 19.8 Lots of acorns remaining. 16 MAY 12:45 - checked lower PHE for birds in holes - Nobody seen. 21 MAY 13:20 - 4 babies (largest one is 15.5g - 3½? 0.04 7 June 12:30 - Banded 3 babies, all healthy. #3026-3028 Some acorns remaining. 10 July 12:30 - Some acorns remaining. No birds seen. Apparently no 2nd nest. 1999 7 June 14:00 - 4 babies and 1 egg (Prob will not hatch) Largest baby about 30g, 1 is only about 15g
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS UPPER PRAIRIE HF HNHR 11 April 14:15- One bird seen in old nest tree (poss. that this bird is from MPH F, of course). No acorns in granary.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS STROMBERG HNHR 10 April 16:30 - 2 fresh eggs. Biodin hole when I arrived. 3 MAY 16:00 - Captured unbanded B4 on nest. #2557 M / L-blue-L-green D-green/ D-green. 5 MAY 10:30 Captured unbanded B4 on nest. Red white (W) / Red white (W) Yellow / metal. 13 MAY 12:50 Captured another unbanded B8 on the nest O blue-white / white-O blue m / Red O blue. 15 MAY 4:00 - Attempted to catch remaining unbanded 8? by pulling ambush to try to trap however was roosting with the nestlings. Unfortunately the ambush failed. I don't thing an adult was in the cavity anyway. So this means there is still one unbanded bird here. He has a broken bill (about 1/3 of the end of the upper mandible). 15 MAY 6:00 - Banded and bled 3 healthy nestlings #2806-2808 30 JUNE 9:00 - It's a second nest! - With 1 baby, hatchd this morning, plus 3 more eggs ① 25.6 x 19.4. 23 June 9:00 - 8 babies now, 2 eggs. Set ambush to catch & 29 June 15:00-17:00 - Attempted to catch NOBA 8?. He never came to nest 30 June 5:00 - Another attempt to catch NOBA 8?.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS WESTGATE HNHR 16 April 8:40 Began observation to check nesting activity. Plenty of acorn stores remaining. 9:20 Moved closer - too far to I.D. (overcast day) I did see one unb. 9:30 Unb 3, main granery. 9:40 green rump seen, main granery 9:40 dgreen?/mt ?/? , main granery 10:10 mt / wt-dk (thin) ? } poss same 10:11 or-wt/lbk ? 3 bird 3 pinkish rump? 10:20 or/ ? (or-dt??) mt/or-dk 8 [2218] ↑ (or purple?) 10:35 [illegible] yellow/blue? ? 1 ? 10:35 16-bl/Yellow/16-blue 8 10:45 4 birds tip of granery - zone aggression between 2 11:05 unb 8 (seen several other times too) 11:40 End obs. 29 June 9:30 Hello? nobody answered
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95 J. HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPEPS FORMICIVORUS WESTGATE HNHR April 13 - 2:00 check holes (with Jim, Peter Walt) nobody seen in a hole. April 17 10:00 - Helped Walt to check (potential suicide) hole. No eggs found. April 18 11:05 - Female in hole (The one Walt went to ayer) 1996 April 7. 17:00 - checked holes in sycamore tree by road. No body seen. April 11 13:15 - Checked holes in Sycamore tree. by road. Nobody seen in a hole. One bird flew from nearby tree, No acorns remaining in granary. April 21 13:00 - Checked holes, One bird seen in tree (sycamore) but she did not seem to have come out of a hole. [illegible] [illegible] Bandoland bled a healthy ba
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94 HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS GATE HNHR 30JUNE 1815- 4eggs fairly fresh. Close to hatching_ ① 25.7 X 19.1 ③ 25.3X19.5 ② 26.0 X 18.7 ④ 25.4 X 18.7 5July 1200 - 3 nestlings + one dead chick. ① 13.0 ③ 16.5 ② 13.5 ④ [2544] 1995 April 12 16:00 - Set Ambush at hole in tree by stop sign for night ambush 19:00 - 5 birds go to roost in this hole; ambush works- get 5 birds: 1513, 1571 2251, 2464, 2463. 1571 was important to catch for blood/DNA sample- So things went well 20JUNE 19:45- Attempt to see who is roosting with babies 19:48- redTm Enters/leaves -1min later. [2482] 19:57- ??? Enters - stays - went in quickly and nearly dark (I was not using flash light - expecting early entry)
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS GATE HNHR April 7 18:15 - Checked holes in Sycamoe by Martin road. No birds seen in a hole. April 11 13:15 - Checked holes in tree at stop sign. Nobody seen. No acorns remaining in granary. April 12 17:00 - Put up two feeders. 1 in granary, next to stop sign. The other in nearly dead tree in open field across stream. (School Hill West is control non-supplemented group). MAY 31 12:30 - BANDER 4 nestlings with WALT. August 12 9:20 - Hear screaming babies in hole. Walte checked and finds 2 nestlings that are about 14 days old. August 14 9:30 - Climbed up tree to check on nestlings and to show them to my family (Chris, Laurel, Grahama and mom). Still 2 healthy nestlings.
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97 J. HAYDOCK 98 MELANERPE BORMIACVARDS GATE TNHR 16 MAY 6 eggs. Early incubation ① 24.9 x 19.7. Bird in hole when we arrived, (2nd nest in same hole as 1st spring nest) 27 MAY 16:30 - 4 babies 19, 17, 17, 6g. 2 eggs (infertile) Took both eggs. Small baby look healthy and seems to have been fed. 13 June 8:40 - Banded and bled 3 healthy babies w/ May. 1998 MAY 18 12:30- No birds seen in a hole. They don't have a second nest yet. Since it seems possible they will, male guarding observations should be done on this group. MAY 19 10:00 - One fresh egg. Same hole as first nest. JUNE 4 14:40- 3 babies - No eggs. (There were 4, but Walt took one) Largest baby is 11.5g. JUNE 22 12:50 - Banded
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97 HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIUROS Pipeline. 21 April 09:30 - Opened new hole in dead sycamore by stream. 2 eggs - ① 26.0 × 19.3. 30 April 12:30 5 eggs now, so last egg date is 24 April. 11 May 16:15 3 babies 38-42g, 1 egg (inertile) 30 June 7:00 - No birds seen in any holes. Some acorns remaining in granary. 7 July 3 eggs 25.1 × 18.7 hole in granary tree 16:45 14 July 10:00 - 2 babies ~7g + 1 dead (3g). Took tissue from dead baby (#2930) 4 Aug. 15:00 - Banded and bled 2 babies with Erin. They weighed 45 and 70g. The 45g nestling looked and sounded pretty pathetic, but perhaps will make it to fledging after his/her big brother/sister fledges and stops bullying him/her. A few acorns still remaining.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 96 WOLFPACK Hasings 14 July 12:10 - Checked several cavities. No body seen. 1995 13 April 1:50 - Checked several holes nobody seen. 1996 19 April 16:00 - Set up 2 feeders to start supplemental feeding. Control group (non-supplemented) is Blom! No birds seen. 15 August 6:45 - checked for birds - nobody seen 1997 Sept 15 18:30 - 3 birds roost in hole found by Walt in oak tree along road (Arnold side) and across from fallen valley oak. Sept 16 11:40 Attempted to climb to hole, but decided branch was too dead (one very small twig w/ leaves on it) to risk climbing. Bird was in hole when we arrived.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS ROAD1 HNHR May 2 Who is going to roast with the nestlings ?? Light-dark / 2 Blue = [1573]? Another ? [prob 1575] also came to hole while 1573 was looking out These 2 birds said hello to each other, but [1575] left. without entering hole. 23 June 10;30 - No bird flew from hole but I here nestlings! 15;50 - 2 nestlings - green-55g ; NODA 40g 5 July ~11:00 - 2 nestlings - bled/banded. 14 July 12;15 - Heard birds in area - nobody Identified 1995 April 13 1:45 - Checked holes, nobody seen. May 5 13:00 - 4 eggs, incubating Measured Ø 25.6 x 20.1 - Bird in hole, eggs warm. 2 other birds flew from upper hole. (Cloudy/rainy day). May 12 15:00 - 4 nestlings. (Largest one 17g.)
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS ROAD1 HINHR 19 April 16:45 - Checked holes in small dead trunk along dry wash. No birds seen. 21 April 12:00 checked holes. One bird seen outside upper hole in small dead trunk along wash. 18 August 8:50 - Nobody seen in a hole. Heard a couple of birds in ginnery tree on W side of road. 22 August 8:30 - Nobody seen in a hole. * 1997 * 4 April 15:30. Open new hole in big dead sycamore. ① 24.65 x 19.6 ② 24.45 x 19.1 ③ 15.8 x 19.9 (removal) [egg] Found 3 eggs, including one ant egg. Look fresh. 10 April 13:30 - Female in hole when I arrived - 6 eggs now. June 11 9:30 Bled 2 small nestlings; sandeel w/ mithing burl June 12 16:30 - Transferred their 2 abandoned babies to A.L. Nobody had visited nest or fled for the entire day. Possibly due to Githemel Kurt filming feeding (setting up to film), but this apparently incestuous group could just be weird enough that successful nesting is easily disrupted. June 30 6:50 - No birds found looking out of a hole. Some, but not a great deal, acorns remaining.
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94 HAYDOCK, JOSEPH 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS ROAD 3 HNHR 17 April - Bird flew from upper hole in oak located 10m E of road. 23 June 11:40 Checked holes - nobody seen. 35 June 12:30 - Checked holes - hello.?? - Nobody seen 14 July 12:15 - Checked holes - nobody seen in a hole - and seen in this years nest tree. 1995 April 13 11:45 - Checked holes, nobody seen. April 19 19:30 - Roost watch with Jim & Pete. - 2-3 birds roost in last years nest hole. The rest probably roosted in hole in sycamore (15m to 5). April 22 12:00 - Arrive to set ambush. Find taken last years nest hole full of water. How could they have roosted here.?? on the 19th. (No significant rain since) April 23 19:45 - Roost watch. Jim report 5 (poss. 6) birds roost in sycamore. April 25 9:30 - Set ambush at sycamore (No eggs) April 26 5:00 - Caught 4 birds. Did not catch NOBIA Caught 2411, 2412, 2415, 2146 May 6 10:00 - 7 eggs, including 1 runt egg. Early incubation Measured (egg): 25-? x 18.7. Open hole - fairly deep; had to make 2 doors. Bird in hole when we arrived.
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS ROAD 3 HNHR MAY23 14:00 - checked nest- 4 nestlings; largest one 42g, smallest 14g. Took blood from smallest nestling since it is unlikely to survive. (ID# 2594 w/ white hatching band.) Walt set ambush (for unbanded Q(s)) MAY23 14:30 - Set-up to attempt capture of unbanded Q 15:15 - (caught UnbQ and 2146 (IN HOLE when Q entered) Took blood from both New bird (#2609) banded as: White / M MAY23 15:00. Jim reports he saw NOBA this morning. (sex unknown) Set ambush to attempt capture NOBA. see D-blue-white/ D blue. Not on field list ? / ? → (1672) Prob Nat Also see 1633, 2413, (possibly 1451) MAY29 8:15 - Another attempt to catch unbanded bird. 9:45 - End obs. Did not see NOBA. MAY29 13:00 Another attempt to catch NOBA. (Q?) Buds seen 2412, 2413, 1672, 1633 16:15 - End obs. Did not see NOBA. May29 19:30 - Roost/ watch at roost tree. One bird roosted in nest hole; another in hole facing wood located ~1m above nest hole. A third bird thought about roosting in upper hole, but decided not to do so. JUNE4 (Pm) Jim reports that he did not see an unbanded bird during watch - so no 2nd Q breeder?
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS ROAD 3 5 JUNE 11:00 - Banded/bled 3 nestlings with Walt. 1996 12 April 16:30 - Set Ambush to catch BM's for painting. 13 April 6:00 - Ambush Failed because line broke. 21 April 12:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen in a hole. 8 May 9:30 - Checked upper hole in blue oak in open area (10m from road). No eggs, but bird did come and complain when I climbed. July 28 17:00 Set ambush to try to catch breeding female. (2nd try- see Walt's notes for previous ambush - blue caught a fledgling, so they had a nest) July 29 5:00 Caught 2609 in upper hole of sycamore tree located on road. Nobody else in this hole or lower hole (also with ambush) so we are still not sure who the breeding female is for this group. 15 August 7:00 - Checked ground territory for possible roost holes as nobody roosted in either of the two trees they have usually roosted in. (sycamore and oak tree). The hole in the sycamore along the stream bed seems to be open and usable again (Walt had blocked it with some branches a week or so ago). 22 August 8:40 - Nobody seen in a hole.
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97 Haydock MELANERPIES FORMICIVORUS R3 HNHR 21 April 12:10 - 5 eggs, incubated - should hatch soon. One of the eggs is a runt egg ① 20.3 x 14.8 (taken out) ② 26.2 x 19.3 27 April 11:30 - 4 babies; no eggs remaining; largest baby 13.5 grams All about the same size, so they should all survive. 15 MAY No birds seen in a hole 30 June 6:30 - No birds seen in any hole but several birds seen in lower nest tree. A few acorns remaining in lower nest tree / granary. 12 July 7:00 - A missed nest! Nestling looking out of hole. Look ready to fledge. 11:00 - Climbed to hole - No babies left, but it was certainly another nest. They must have fledged in the last 4 hours.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MECHANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS SCHOOL HILL HNHR 13 April 16:00 Checked with Walt. Cavity in tree on cast side of territory 5 babies 4-5d old (School hill "C" nest hole) 16:45 checked other holes in terr, no answer 23 June 10:00 Checked several holes for renesting attempt, Nobody found. Block has fallen from nest hole for this year 27 June 18:00-19:00 Observed for evidence of renesting D Bine//green m / red-white [238] In tree on westside, foraying Adult? In one of the trees in enclosure. 28 June 9:00 - Replaced blocks from nest hole. - Began Observations for renesting attempt. 9:00-10:30 seen. 29 June 7:15 checked several holes in trees in enclosure- nobody seen. 14 July 10:40 Checked several holes - nobody seen 15 July 9:40 -Checked most holes in territory. no bird seen in a hole. 2 birds flew from tree in enclosure. 3 Aug 19:30. Roost watch. I heard at least one bird to NW of enclosure, this individual flew to tree in enclosure that Mary was watching. Mary reports 10! birds roosted in this tree (located on west side of enclosure). Mike reports 1 bird went to roost in tree to SE (this years nest hole). 4 Aug 16:30 Set ambush at this years nest tree, Walt set ambush at tree in enclosure. We hope to catch unb juveniles.
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94 HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS SCHOOL HILL HNHR 5 Aug 4:00 - No birds in ambush that I set (in nest tree) Walt's ambush in tree in enclosure yielded 14! birds Q in one hole! including 4 NOBA juveniles Banded P bled juveniles. Bled all others. Caught 1903, 1385, 2065, 2210, 2137, 2208, 2209, 2389, 2381, 2385. Newly banded jaws 2555 - RED/Yellow 2557 - LBLUE-BLUE/LBBLUE 2556 - CPINK/DBLUE 2558 - C 1995 6 April 12:45 - Checked holes - Nobody seen. (lots of acorns remaining 11 April 16:00 - Walt and I set ambushes at 4 holes in trees in enclosure. We are trying to catch 1426, one of the brooder males because a new blood/DNA sample is needed (the sample we have has DNA that is severely broken) 12 April! 5:00 - Catch 3 birds in upper tree of exposure. Did not catch 1426, 15 MAY 16:00 Banded/bled 3 nestlings: 2580: D-green/orange // D-green m // orange 2581: L-green//a-blue-yellow m // D-blue/yellow 2582: white//D-blue/white pink // m 29 May 10:00 - See bird at (not in) nest hole. Juv. looking out at nest hole.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS SCHOOL HILL HNHR 4 April 11:30 - Checked several holes. No birds seen. Some acorn stores remaining in gravay at bottom side of enclosure. 4 May 9:30 - 3 just hatched (7.5g) + 1 more hatching bill about half out. 6 MAY 10:30 - 3 babies now. So I guess the 4th died shortly after hatching. 25 MAY 14:30 Banded/ bled 3 nestlings with LISA.G. 1997 18 MAY 6:50- Looking for signs of nesting .... ♂ Red / Red (2677) ♂ ? ? m / orange(?) (2580) ♂ m / red-white (2381) - Fledgling !! - trying to get food from a node (unidentifed) - So 1st nest missed ☺ 9:20- End Observations. Did not see a 9 - perhaps she is spending time incubating at 2nd nest? 4 June 17:00 - 4 eggs, fairly fresh but prob. complete. Bird in hole. (3 June) 15 June 9:05- 3 babies, legg largest baby 7g. All look cute happy. 5:30 - Ambushed with Watt. See his notes for more info.
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94 HAYDOCK, JOSEPH 95 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS SCHOOL HILL WEST HWHB. 13 April. 16:30 Checked main tree several cavities - no answer 23 June. 11:00 Checked two holes - nobody seen 28 June. 11:15 Checked two holes in nest tree - possible that a bird flew from upper hole 29 June. 7:00 Checked two holes in nest tree - nobody seen 14 July. 10:55 - Checked two holes in nest tree - bird flew from tree - worth checking again - maybe just chick and chak. 15 July. 10:15: Chalked upper hole in main granny tree - Nothing there; bottom of hole very uneven. No bird seen in hole. 1995 6 April. 11:45 - Checked holes. Nobody seen. Lots of acorns remaining. 12 MAY. 18:00 - 4 eggs. Warm / mid-incubation Measured Egg: 22.9 x 19.9 23 MAY. 12:00 - Nothing left. Few if any acorns in granary. 29 MAY. 10:45 - Seems to be a power struggle going on - Lots of WHHA's, drumming, etc. - Count at least 7 birds in area, but I don't have my scope to identify them. 29 MAY. 14:30 - Start obs. of power struggle again - Main activity is just uphill from granary.
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS SCHOOL HILL WEST HWHR 29 MAY Obs. of power struggle continued: ♀ m / mauve-black [2502] west gate. ♂ m / (w) / Mauve [2506] " ♀ white-red/m ? ♀ < blue / green [2505] W.GATE ♀ Red / orange [2507] W.gate. - So west gate ♀'s are ground, but Wolf report both school hill breeders are ground (in their granary) so this looks to be an attempted coup rather than a traditional power struggle. 30 MAY 9:00 - obs. of power struggle continued. The following individuals are observed. ♂ M Tgreen : lt blue / ltblue-lgreen [2288] (H) SHW (located just North of granary.) ♀ RED/orange MA / (mauve-Dbule)? = 2507. [2507] seen later well. wr metal located just uphill from granary. Obs. 2288 with ♀'s (prob Wgate). Seem to be getting along OK. ♂ M (Black marked by (N) (Mauve orange (mauve-Dbule [2506] {All just above granary All (Split) LtBlue/Ltgreen [2505] ? / ? - 1608 seen (BORSHW) Wgate
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPEs FORMICUROS SCHOOL HILL WEST HNHR 30 MAY. 10:00 Power struggle/coup obs. continued. In general activity is similar to yesterday.- West gate birds are located just uphill from the granary-I have not seen them go to the granary today-And are flying about and calling frequently. Little aggression seen, except for a few perch displacements. orange /ltblue orange-[1998] (SHW,BF.) Fly cutting just up hill from granary- Did not interact with WG site birds= 1996 4 April 11:45 - checked to see if birds was in cavity. No birds seen. No acorn steres remaining 4 May 9:40 - Checked nest hole - Nobody seen. 20 MAY 17:30 - Bird in hole; 3 eggs- fresh. No measured. 25 MAY 11:52 - Checked eggs. No eggs found. Depredation :
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS SCHOOL HILL WEST HNHR 18 MAY 11:30 - 4 babies about the same size; largest 18g. One unhatched from "runt" egg - fully developed, but failed to hatch. 20 MAY 8:30 - Arrive to attempt to catch unbanded B# 11:30 - No luck - only saw B# 2288 Dblue / Dblue 22 MAY 8:00 - Arrive to attempt to catch unbanded B# 11:00 Again no luck. B# 2258 [illegible] fed about 12 times B# 2529 Lpink / Dblue M (red/white w) Fed about 7 times! Both brooded nestlings for about 30 min. Unbanded I never seen, so perhaps she is no longer around - wait until nest watch or 2 is done to check if unbanded is gone or land do a roost watch.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 96 97 ARFTOO HINHR May 9 14:30 3 nestlings, 1 unhatched egg (infertile) 26.0×18.3 ① 14.9g YELLOW ② 17.7g LPINK ③ 15.9g BLACK Above measurements made by Walt. 29 June 8:00 - checked this years nest hole with Walt. Nobody in hole. Walt took blind to road. 1995 May 14 12:00 - checked holes. Nobody seen no stores in granary (located to W) 1996 1997 15 April 6:30 - 4 eggs, incubated ① [illegible] 23.4×18.1
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIUROUS BLACK OAK HNHR 14 June 15:45 checked holes - nobody seen. 23 June 16:45 Checked holes for renest attempt - nobody seen 28 June 19:20 - Checked holes for renest attempt - nobody seen 29 June 9:45 - Checked holes for renesting - hollow - nobody seen 1995 31 MAR 12:00 - Some stores in roost tree. Nobody see in a hole 21 April 3:10 - Checked holes. Bird in hole (last year nest, central trunk, fairly low) 11 May 10:00 - 4 healthy nestlings close to banding age. Lots of acorns remaining in granary. 16 May 11:30 - Banded and bled 4 nestlings with Walt. 21 JUNE 13:30 - Checked holes. Nobody in a hole. Some work being done on holes facing PROBO in next tree. Locf 1:15 - A few acorns in granary by nest tree. No birds seen,
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANER PES FORMICIVORUS BLACK OAK HNHR 3 April 16:15 - Nobody seen in a hole. 20 April 12:20 No birds seen. A few acorns in granary below nest (apparently being shared with PHOBO birds - Joshua) 2 MAY 11:00 - Nobody seen in a hole 5 MAY 9:45 Nobody seen in a hole. 14 MAY 13:00 - Nobody seen in a hole 20 MAY 19:05 - Bird in hole facing away from Bnawer - possible nest or just where they are roosting tonight? 19 July 7:25: Heard some birds as I approached. No acorns in either granary *1997* 3 April 14:30. Nobody seen, but lots of acorns 14 April 12:40 - Nobody seen in a hole 10 June 10:45 - Nobody seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns 7 July 9:15 - Nobody seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns 19 Aug 8:30 - Several birds seen, some chasing. Minor power struggle in progress to replace breeder? Some acorns still remaining.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS PHANTOM OF BLACK OAK HINHR 12Aug 17:00 Check cavity before setting ambush--Find 2 nestlings about 1 week old! 16Aug 19:00 - Roost Watch - 1 bird roosts with nestlings 18Aug 19:00 Roost Watch - Again miss attempt to determine which & breeder in roosting with nestlings. Saw #2476 enter & leave just before & entered to roost with nestlings. 19Aug 15:00 - Attempt to set ambush for day-time capture of an NOBA & breeder. String broke! and I did not bring weight to throw string over limb again. I Will try again soon ---- . 22Aug 19:00 - Roost Watch. Who is roosting with nestlings? See male in nest (40) when I arrive. I don't think this bird left. [illegible] (Set unknown) Enter nest and stays. Another bird comes in late and stays. Could have been unbanded - I did not see bands, but I did not get a good look. 24Aug 15:00 - Set ambush for attempt at catching Unb & breeder While he feeds at nest. 15:10 - I'm in blind waiting.... 16:25 [2476] draws/feeds 1st - finally - 1:10 min after start! 17:20 - Have seen 2474, 2455, 2476 feed, but not NOBA. 25Aug 11:30 - Set ambush for another attempt. I am now in other blind waiting for NOBA. NOBA came to hole twice, both times w/o food. Never entered hole - Saw 2476, 2474, 2455, 2456 feed several times each. [25Aug] 26Aug 14:30 - Find 1 dead nestling - died recently took tissue sample.
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94 HAYDOCK 95 MEGANERPEs FORMICIVORUS PHANTOM OF BLACK OAK HNR 28Aug 19:00 Roost watch. phantom of black oaks living up to their name. Mike and I watched for them in trees that were once part of Blackoak We saw and heard nothing. Mary reports the same from her observations at the roost hole. 29Aug 19:00 Yet another roost watch results in negative data - where 'o' where is the phantom, of black oak 1995 31 MAR 11:58- Saw a few birds. No bird seen in a hole. Lots of acorns stored (in lower Black Oak-trr) 21 April 3:45- Checked holes in southern tree (last years late nest). Nobody seen, 3 May 11:00 - Birds seen in tree, but nobody seen in a hole. 11 may 10:10-12:10- Observed for nesting activity- never saw anybody. Heard somebody to SE of nest tree. 30 MAY (pm) 1 2 babies, 2 eggs. Oldest baby hatched (yesterday)? - Set up ambush to catch NOBA. 2 JUNE 15:30- Attempt to catch NOBA(s). Reset ambush. Yes - caught NOBA #1 and 2454. # Took blood & banded NOBA #2625 yellow/blue / yellow/blue. 8 JUNE 15:00- Another try to make sure there is not another NOBA bird here.... (green-blue) Blue? or not Blue-yellow(N)? (Order). on lots
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95 HAYDECK 96 MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS PHOBO JUNES (unusual) green- Dblue / DBlue m I Dblue-Yellow (N) [2214?] from? LAZ. Caught ♀ 2400 [From LAZ] - took blood. So - 2214 from LAZ almost certainly is the other bird I saw => Igreen/Dblue m / Dblue-Yellow (N) JUN62L 13:20 - Banded/bled 2 nestlings with Walt. Have some acorns in granary next to Black Oak Loct 1:10 - No acorns in granary below black oak nest tree No birds seen 1996 April 3 16:15 - Nobody seen. April 20 12:20 - No birds seen again today. 2 MAY 11:00 - Possible bird in hole. Saw bird fly from near hole as I approached 5MAY 9:45 - Nobody seen in a hole. 14 MAY 12:55 - Nobody seen in a hole 20 MAY 19:10 - Roost watch; nobody seen. No bird seen in a hole 19 July 7:30 - No birds seen or heard. No acorns in Black Oaks lower granary 9 Sept 9:00 - Opened new hole in mostly dead tree below BKOK nest tree. Found 4 babies, largest one ~14g - So about 3 days old > hatched on the 6th of September. Also 2 eggs, including a mute egg still in nest took both of them ① 24.35 x 18.1 ② 19.7 x 15.3
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97 HARDUCK MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS PHOBO 3 April 15:20. Nobody seen in a hole, Lots of acorns. 14 April 12:50 - Nobody seen in a hole 1 May 15:30 - Bird in hole; hear babies after it leaves. Same hole that I thought bird came out of about 5 days ago (claring roost with no nest taken) New hole in poison oak surrounded tree located just below hole used last year for nesting. 2 May 13:30 - Finally made it through all the poison oak (cut most of it away) and opened hole. 7 babies!! 10g to 23g. Only the 110g bird is significantly smaller; the rest are about the same size (~23g) 17 MAY Banded 10 June 9:45 - No birds seen in a hole - Still plenty of acorns 13 June 10:20 - Two fledglings flew from nest hole located in (is black oak?) towards briaq. (hole opens downward), I hope those were PHOBO fledglings and not some other group (i.e. SOBO) 7 July 9:20 - Nobody seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns 18 Aug 7:40 - Several birds seen, Some acorns remaining.
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS SOBO 31 MAR 12:05- Saw a few birds. No acorn stores. No bird seen in a hole - Saw bird with band. 26 April. 14:30 - Checked holes. Nobody seen. 1996
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK. 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROLs ARNOLD I HNHR 20 April 10:50 started obs. to determine nest location 11:50 End obs. No evidence of nesting. 23 June. 19:30 Attempt math to observe who is roosting - Too close, I am scaring them away - will try again. 28 June 19:30. Mosquitoes!! Tried to determine which 7 roosted- Nobody went to roost 17 July 18:40- Plenty of acorns. Nobody seen. 1995 31 MAR. 11:05 - No bird seen in a hole. Lots of acorns, saw several birds - Also saw a couple of birds on N. side of road. 21 April 3:30 - Watt observed 2 birds leave new hole-checks 31 MAY 9:15 - Nest ambush set for attempt to catch birds for DNA/blood. Need blood from 1222, 1027, 1212, 2034, 1026 (listed in order of importance.. 11:45 - End attempt. I was able to catch and take blood from 1027. I am fairly sure I saw 1222, but he did not enter the hole (possible that I got [illegible] confused 2762 as 1222. (June. 8:45 - Another attempt to catch 1222 - Yes - caught him and took blood. I will now try to catch 1212 or 2034. - Yes caught 2034. 11:00 - End @ observations.
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95 HAYDOCK 96 MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS ARNOLD L. HNAR 2 JUNE 13:30 - Set ambush to attempt capture of 1212 and 1026. Caught 1212. Did not try to catch 1026. 3 JUNE 11:00 - Set ambush to catch 1026 - Yes! Caught Breeder. Also saw a bird that was RED / METAL 2629-2634 9 JUNE 13:00 - Banded/bled 6 nestlings with Walt, 1 oct 12:40 - A few acorns in old mast tree. Hand a bird. 1996 April 20 16:30 - Nobody seen in last years rest hole. Apr. 122 17:00 - Set ambush to catch breeders for painting (want to do mate guarding observations) April 22 19:15 - One bird goes in upper hole; 4 others in lower hole. I decided to delay ambush because of slight suspicion that there may be eggs in upper hole (I could not reach the bottom, but hole looked poor for nesting since it did not have flat bottom) April 23 18:00 reset both ambushers to try again - Checked both cavities for eggs (with mirror) - No eggs April 24 5:00 - Yes caught just the birds I wanted - the single female breeder plus the 3 male breeders. ♀ 1026 - green ♂ 1027 - L blue / D blue ♀ 1212 - yellow ♂ 1222 - reddish-orange
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96 HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS ARNOLDI HASTINGS April 25 11:20 - Male guarding watch. Birds in group. B♂ 1212 (yellow paint) - B♂ 1026 (green paint) - B♂ 1027 (blue paint) B♂ 1222 (reddish orange) yellow/m H♀ 2034 - Red-orange(w)/L green √ seen H♀ 2462 - L-blue L green /m D blue-yellow(w)/Red Lpk(w) √ seen H♂ 2439 - Black-green/yellow m / black Not seen. See;♀ Dblue-yellow(w)/? (w) (2462) ♀ yellow/m (2034) ♂ ? / L-green (1027) paint job ♂ ? / dark/light (blue?) (1027) not very good. 1:50 - End obs - April 26 7:00 Male guarding observations continued. 10:00 End obs. May 2 7:20 - Started male guarding obs. at A1 again. - Ended obs. They do not seem to be guardings May 5 7:15 - Started male guarding obs. Breeding males and Females are staying together, but very difficult to observe. They are spending most of the time foraging on young leaves/ buds in oaks/thick foliage. 8:45 - End observations May 6 7:20 - Started male guarding observations. 8:30 - End obs. do not seem to be male guarding. Breeding♀ seen above for 8 min. May 9 7:20 - Started another attempt at a male guarding watch. 8:01 - They are still not male guarding.
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96 HAYPOCK 97 MELANERPEPS FORMICIVORUS ARNOLD I HASTINGS may14: 13:05- Nobody seen in a hole 19July 7:20 - Heard a couple of birds. No acorns remaining. No birds seen in a hole. 16 August No birds seen in a hole. *1997* 3April 15:25- No birds seen in a hole. Lots of acorns 14April 13:00- No birds seen in a hole 21April 11:30- checked holes - Nobody seen in a hole 4 MAY 10:00- Bird flies from new hole in granary tree; Hole is located on down hill side of tree in smallish downward running branch and the hole faces the road. Hear babies begging when bird leaves!! 6MAY 9:30- Open hole indicated above. Found 2 babies at 31p49g + 3 unhatched eggs ① 27.0 x 19.1 15MAY Banded 2 babies Very small, likely that they were not 21 days old as predicted from weightson Gmor- Both healthy & well fed. 10 June 9:30- Bird in hole- Likely 2nd nest. Lower hole in dead snag that requires loft ladder. 12 June 11:00 3 babies. Largest one 29g. All look healthy and about the same size, 13June 17:00- Placed the 2 abandoned babies from RL in nest - both have hatchling bands. 7 July 10:10- Nobody seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns
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94 HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS KEEP OUT FINHR 9 May 12:00 Fainted. 20 eggs (checked/opened by Walt) 15:15 - 4 eggs - ① 24.0 x 19.3 ③ 23.8 x 19.1 ② 22.2 x 19.1 ④ 23.1 x 19.7 (No development - all infertile?) 29 June 8:10 - Checked holes in tree trunk - nobody seen 18 July 18:50 - Plenty of acorns. No birds seen in a hole. 1995 31 MAR 11:10 Tour with Wolf, Jim Petr. Lots of acorns, No bird seen in a hole. 21 April 12:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen 14 May 12:30 Bird in hole; In tree just below parking area; broken-off branch. 16 MAY 9:00 - Opened hole - Nothing inside - Bird seen on outside looking in hole as I approached. 9 JUNE 14:30 - Observed for finding nest/evidence of breeding. 29 JUNE 14:30 - Checked holes, nobody seen. Some acorns remaining in main granary. Oct 12:15 - A few acorns in main granary. No birds seen
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS KEEP OUT HNHR April 3 3:50 - No birds seen. No acorns in main granary April 20 11:00 - Set up 2 feeders in main granary (Keepout sign) tree. (Control non-supplemented group is BIANCA). No birds seen in hole April 23 5:00 - Power struggle at keep out ♂ REDIM (LA2) 2399 ?) ? D-BLUE-YELLOW(N)/Y ♂ Y-1Y-(Both old, faded) M I ? ♀ M I ? Dgrey/OGreen ? ? M / ObIue-Yellow (N) ? M / Red-black ? I ? (LA2 2846) ? ♀ W/Y ?/? <(m/ObIue-Yellow(N))?? (LA2 bird?) 2645 ♂ M / Orange ?1 ? (LA2 2213)? ? M / ObIue-L blue ? 7 ? (FAR) 2602) ♀ Dark color+ orange/orangedark m/? 6:00 - Left to get camera, scope, etc. 7:12 - Caught 2602. 9:30 End Observation. 14 MAY 13:15 - Nobody seen in a hole
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97 HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS KEEP OUT HASTINGS 15 April 5:00- Roost ambush. Caught and painted three birds in single roost hole; the other 3 birds in a group likely roosted together in another hole in same dead snag located towards junk yard from granary. Saw 3 birds fly as I started climbing snag to remove birds, but not sure if they came from the same hole. 2448 B4 pink; 2399 B0 green 2645 B0 yellow paint. 16 April 6:00- Arrived to observe for possible egg tossing with National Geographic photographers. 6:25- 6:30- 2602 B4- observed along w/o any other birds within 15 meters of bar. 6:31- 2448 B4- observed along but she then flew to join others including males. 7:00- 2399 and 2448. Have been sitting next to each other for 20 min! - Pink (2448) then left and Green did not follow. Intruders seem to be coming in but, I have not been able to identify some birds that seem to be intruders. There has been some chasing of birds from the territory. 7:18- Again I see Pink 2448 2399 and green arrive together in fancy hue, but green leaves w/o pink. 7:30- End Observations. 21 April 11:30- checked holes - Nobody seen in a hole. 9 MAY 13:50. Checked holes - Nobody seen in a hole. 14:50. Birdin hole in dead snag, upper hole 4 eggs (1) 24.7 x (9.7), All marked w/ green spot.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS KEEP OUT HINHR MAY 18 18:00 4 babies, all healthy. Langstone 22g. Keith and Kurt will be filming feeding here. (They also did the nest check weighted the babies) MAY 23 - Nest destroyed by some sort of predator. That the open back of nest where Kieth/sonal Kurt had placed a cardboard/fill door to allow for filming. JUNE 17 8:15- Opened new hole in tree looked toward CAZ from turn around/parking area. 4 eggs, incubated 0 26.1 x 20.4 June 20 8:30 - [illegible] Does not seem to have hatched yet but I did not climb up to hole June 22 18:00- 3 babies, no eggs remaining, bathed today. 7 July 10:05- Can hear babies. Still plenty of acorns 14 July 9:30 - Banded and bled 3 healthy babies, but they are Somewhat small for their age (as with other 2nd Nests this year). 16 OCT 13:20 - checked nest tree, Nobody seen quiet. Acorns (old only) in granary.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS ARNOLD S. HNHR 6 June 15:00 Checked holes in main nest tree-no birds seen. 12 June 19:30 Walt sets flap type ambush on upper not hole of main tree, Unfortunately they don't go to roost in this hole 14 June 14:45 Walt fixed ambush in position to let birds adjust to its presence. 23 June 19:30 - Roost watch. 1 bird may have used nest hole- went to roost late-difficult to Observe 14 July 19:30 Roost Watch. @ with Laura- Unable to see where they roosted 17 July 19:30 Roost watch-unable to determine where they roosted -no birds seen. 11 Aug 19:30 - Roost watch. Did not see any birds go in a hole; but used flashlight to find a bird looking out of a hole at the top of a broken off limb (only about 20cm in diameter) in forest to Southot nest tree. 15 Aug 19:35 - Roost Watch- 3 birds leave hole - 1 returns - So could be 3 birds in hole - will try ambush (with pole) 16 Aug 5:00 - Ambush works, but only 1 bird in hole [2443] 17 Aug 19:15 - Mike reports 2 birds go in hole to SW of grammy tree. Will try pole ambush 18 Aug 5:00 - Ambush successful, but both birds banded. [2083], [2440] - bled/took DNA from both. 24 Aug 5:00 - Ambush again at the same hole. (Mike reported that 3-4 birds went in last night) Caught 3 birds [2082], [2443], [2567]- Red/Blue (blue-Red) m / Red.
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95 HAYDOCK MELANERPE FORMICIVORUS ARNOLDS 3(MARCH) 11:05 Tour with Jim, Peky, Wall- lots of acorn No birds seen in a hole. 21 April 2:00- Checked holes. Nobody seen. 24 MAY 13;30- Banded/bled 2 nestlings (2600; 2601) with wall. 2600: black-wht(N) 1 m Red Black 2601: D-blue-wht(N) Orange orange / m 29 JUNE 14;30- Checked holes; nobody seen. Some acorns remaining in main granary. L October 18:10 - A few acorns in main granary. No birds in main granary
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96 J. HAYDOCK 97 MELANERIPES FORMICIVORUS ARNOLD S. HNHR 3 April 3:55 - No birds seen. A few acorns remaining in granary below main granary. 20 April 11:30 - No birds seen. Still a few (620) acorns in granary below main granary. 3 MAY 11:00 - checked holes. Nobody seen in a hole. 14MAR 13:15 - Nobody seen in a hole 16 August No birds seen in a hole. * 1997 * 3 April 14:40 - No birds seen in a hole, but lots of acorns 9 MAY 13:55 - No birds seen in a hole. 24 MAY 9:30-10:50 - Observed for signs of a nest. Nothing remarkable observed. 10 June 10:35 - I hear babies - they seem to be in new hole located further up canyon (away from knot) in tree surrounded by poison oak in dead, small limb (Chole noticed by Walt w/ bird?) several weeks ago) 12 June 10:30 - Opened hole enough to know for sure they are baby woodpeckers in hole, but I did not conit them - My guess is that they are ~ 1 week old. 7 July 18:00 - Did not check holes, but they still have plenty of acorns 14 Oct 13:15 - All quiet. Lots of acorns in granary
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE FORMICIVOROUS LAMBERT HNHR 14 June 14:45 checked cavities - nobody seen. Plenty of stores remaining. 23 June 17:00 - Checked holes for nesting attempt - Nobody seen. nobody seen 28 June 19:15 - Checked holes with "hello", opened lower hole - nothing 29 June 8:10 checked holes with "hello" - Opened lower hole - nothing found. Plenty of stores in fallen tree. 18 July 18:55 - On tour w/ Walt, Mary and Mike. - Plenty of acorns in fallen tree - No birds seen in a hole. 12 Aug 19:30 - Roost watch. 1995 31 Mar 10:55 - Tour with Walt, Jim & Peter Lots of acorns. Saw 1-2 birds - Nobody in a hole. 21 April 14:00 - Checked holes. Possible bird in hole in main tree upper hole, west side. 29 June 18:30 Checked holes; nobody seen. Lots of acorns remaining in main granary Oct 12:15 A fair amount (30-40% full) of acorns in fallen granary. A few in nest tree. No birds seen. One part (branch on keep out side) is 30-40% full of acorns.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS LAMBERT 3 April - 4:00 - Saw 2 woodpecker fly from last years nest tree. No bird seen in a hole. A few acorns remaining in bryonary on ground. 20 April 11:30 - Nobody seen in a hole. 2 MAY 11:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen 5 MAY 10:30 - 4 eggs!! - fresh, Saw bird in hole Measured legg: 25.95 x 26.0 9 MAY 8:36 - No Birds APPEAR TO BE IN NEST HOLE UPON OUR ARRIVAL. 8:48 - STILL 4 EGGS IN HOLE! EGGS ARE MEASUREMENT WEIGHT OF EGGS: ~ 25.5 x 20.3 17 MAY 10:30 BABIES => 4g, 9g, 15.5g, 14g 22 MAY 16:00 - 3 babies now. Added 2 from plaque. #2674 and 2675 4 JUNE: 10:15 - 1 gopher snake now! No babies. 16 August No birds seen in a hole
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97 HAYDOCK MELANERPE5 FORMICIVORUS LAMBERT H N H R 21April 11:20 - Checked holes - Nobody seen. LMAR 14:30 - Bird in hole; traditional tree; new hole just below upper used during previous years. 4MAY 9:30 - Opened hole indicated above. As it turns out upper hole connects with this one! but now it is much easier to get to bottom of hole so opening it was not a complete waste of time. 5 eggs found. 4 appear incubated, but the 5th look fairly fresh suggesting either it is the last laid or unfertile and is not developing ① 23.9 x 19.4. 9may 13:57 3 babies, 1 egg piped & hatching, last egg must be infertile. Largest baby weighs 9g. 7July 9:55 - Nobody seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns 1Sept 9:30 - Nobody sign of nesting activity. 14oct 13:20 - Nobody seen. No sign of nesting. Acorns remaining in granary.
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94 JOSEPH HAYDOCK 95 MELANERPE FORMICINOROUS FANNY ARNOLD HNHR 14 June 15:30 Checked holes-nobody seen. Same stones still remain (even though they don't have much of a granary) 14July 19:00. Checked holes. Nobody seen. Still some stones 1995 31 MAR 11:15 - Saw one bird- Did not check holes. 21 April 18:30 - Bird in hole. Walt checked. Nothing inside. 26 April 13:30- Check 2 holes. Hole at top of rope has 5 eggs Measured 2 egg ① 21.0x16.7 ( punt) ② 25.6x19.7 3 May 10:00- Eggs- warm. 11May 9:20 - 4 nestlings + unhatched runegg. largest nesting 32.5g. 24MAY 14:30- Banded/bred 4 nestlings w/ Wolf. 2602: m/Dblue-Lblue Dgreen / Dgreen 2603: redgreen/redgreen 2604: Dblue-yellow(m)/L blue m / Dblue 2605: black / white black/m 29 JUNE - Checked holes; nobody seen. Some acorns remaining in granary located towards (Keepout) (dead tree) Oct. - 18:25- A few acorns in granary next to nest tree. No birds seen, heard one bird when leaving.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPE S FORMICIVORUS FANNY ARNOLD HNHR 3 April 4:15 - No birds seen; but only looked from across volley. 20 April 11:45 - No birds seen in a hole. Some acorns remaining. 2 MAY 11:10 - Nobody seen in a hole 9 may - 10:29 - / BIRD FLEW OUT OF NEST HOLE UPON OUR ARRIVAL, - 10:33 - 4 EGGS FOUND IN NEST. MEASUREMENTS: EGG 1 → 25.4 x 19.3 EGG 2 → 26.55 x 19.25 Egg freshly laid. 14 MAY 12:35 - Still 4 eggs. Incubated. bird in hole 17 MAY 11:10 - 4 EGGS. INCUBATED. BIRD IN HOLE 24 MAY 15:00 - 2 nestlings about the same size Measured 1 24g. No eggs remaining. 7 JUNE 10:20 - Banded/bled 2 nestlings with Walt 16 August - No birds seen in a hole.
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97 HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FURNICIVORUS FANNY ARNOLD HNHR 3 April 15:00 - No birds seen in a hole 12 April 9:45- No bird seen in a hole. 18 April 8:00- No birds seen in a hole. 10 June 10:40- No birds seen in a hole. 7 July 7:50 - No birds seen in a hole. Still plenty of acorns in their weeper g-anary. 1 Sept 9:35- No sign of nesting activity
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95 HAYDOCK 96 97 MEANAPTES FARMICIVORUS UPPER ARNOLD 2. HWHTR 31 MAR. 11:20 - No birds seen. No acorn stems. 21 April. 10:00. No birds seen. No acorns 1 Oct. 12:45 - A very few acorns in granary. Heard one bird closely and toward Fanny Arnold 1996 3 April. 4:20. No birds seen; No acorns 20 April. 12:00 - No birds seen. 1997 14 April. 13:40 - Walt sees bird in hole, Charles not and finds eggs- 18 April. 8:10 - Checked for clutch size - 6 eggs now. 24 April. 10:50 - Measured a egg ① 25.05x18.8 2 MAY. 14:45 - 5 babies. 4 at about 19g the 5th only 5 grams, but hanging in there. Poor bird; No eggs. 11 MAY. 12:10 - Having set up a blind and set the ambush 45 min ago, I returned to attempt to catch unbanded breeder female. >Failed she left while I pulled the ambush 12 MAY. 7:00 - Another attempt to catch unb. female Yes - got her! # 20 MAY. Banded 3 babies. All look good 10 June. 10:15 - Bird may have flown from hole in same tree as (1st nest, but hole that faces downward toward butt not ravine
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94 JOSEPH HAYOCC 95 MELANERPEs FORMICIVOROUS LOWER ARNOLD 2 HNHR 16 April 16:45 4 babies -3-4d old reported by Walt. 14 June 15:10 Walt reports 4 warm eggs - None really look like they are going to hatch. 23 June 17:30 - 4 eggs, warm? I crushed in on one side- no development - rotten, yuck. tossed out of hole. 29 June 8:45- 3 eggs - cold - removed. 18 July 19:10 - Nobody seen, Lots of acorns remaining. 14 Aug 18:30 - Roost watch.- At least 5 birds roost in tree located about 150ft W of nest tree. 1995 31 MAR 11:25 - Lots of acorns. Relatively high activity. Saw some chases.-possible power struggle 3 JUNE 1:00 - 4 babies, 1 egg (Does not look good) Largest baby is 13.5g. 1 Oct 12:50- lot of acorns in main granary, No birds seen.
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96 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS LOWER ARNOLD 2 HNHR 3 April 4:30 - No birds seen. Lots of acorns remaining in main granary, 20 April 12:10 - No birds seen. 2 MAY 11:15 - No body seen in a hole 5 MAY 9:45 - Bird in hole!! Underside of dead limb that needs ladder to check 6 MAY 10:00 - 5 eggs (?) difficult to reach. Fresh; poss. laying. 24.85X 19.60 17 MAY 11:35 - 2 EGGS COLD: A BAD (PARTIALLY DEVELOPED?) 2 BIRDS => 20g, 15g 22 MAY 17:30 - 2 nestlings; added 2 more from PLATQUE (① 23.35 X 19.95 ② 25.55X 20.65) -> (Measured eggs that did not hatch.) <- 4 JUNE 11:00 - Bonded 4 nestlings with Walt - so they all made it - The 2 CAZ babies plus the transfers from PLATQUE 7 JUNE 12:00 - Arrive to find nestling still alive that LISA had found at 11:00 on ground below nest. It was bird 2672. Opened nest and found 2 live nestlings and nestling 2685 dead in nest (no apparent reason for its death). Put 2672 back in nest. 19 July 7:55 - 2 birds flew from granary. A few, (very few) white acorns remaining in granary. 16 August 12:00 Nobody seen in a hole.
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97 J. HAYDOCK MELANERPEs FORMICIVORUS LOWER ARNOLD 2 HWHR 3 April 15:10. No birds seen in a hole 12 April 10:00 No birds seen in a hole 21 April 10:30 No birds seen in a hole. 1 MAY 15:10 - Possible that bird was in hole in first tree along fence (when coming from A1); (new hole). 2 MAY 16:30 - Opened new hole indicated above (MARI); Hole is facing other nest tree (traditional?) and located but 15ft above the ground. Found 5 eggs; they look well incubated ① 27.7 x 18.7. 9 MAY 13:20 - 5 babies, largest 24g, but all nearly as big. One egg remaining that apparently failed to hatch because the shells from other eggs were stuck over the mating; it necessary for the hatching bird to go through at least 2 shell layers. When I pulled offe the outer half shell, the inner shell was piped open in a small cycle, but the fully developed hatching was very dead and rotten. 16 MAY 12:30 - They all died ☺. No obvious reason - perhaps No F incubated after a set ambush on may may 12_ 24 MAY 9:00 - New nest in traditional nest tree along fence line, in hole facing towards WNW, down hill branch, 7 eggs - fairly fresh. ① 26.3 x 19.9 June 10:00 - Still 7 eggs. Bird in hole when I arrived. 4 June 19:30 - 4 babies 4-14g, smallest taken out; the other 3 are about the same size. (#2878 is runt nesting). No eggs remaining, so I guess they all hatched. 10 June 11:00 Caught (of 2 unbanded female breeder.
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94 95 HAYDOCK M. FORMICIVORUS BIANCA HNHR 18 July 19:15 - Checked holes/acorn stones on tour with Walt, Mary and Mike. Plenty of stones remaining. 1995 MAR 31 11:50 - Some acorns gaters, but not a lot. No birds seen in a hole. 21 April 3:00 - Checked holes. Nobody seen 11 May 10:50 - 11:50 - Observed to try and find nest. Saw 3 individuals in granary; heard birds on west side of terr. Also saw birds fly from granary to west side of territory. Checked for holes in west part of territory. Last 12:55 - A few acorns in dead trunk by post hole in cabin. Also saw several birds at left side of territory.
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96 HAYDUCK 97 MELANERDES FORMICIVORUS BIANCA HAWHR 3 April 4:32 - No birds seen. No acorns, but I did not check careful (I did not go over to granary) 20 April 12:15 - No birds seen. 2 May 11:00 - Nobody seen in a hole 5 May 9:45 - Nobody seen in a hole 14 May 12:45 - Nobody seen in a hole 20 May 19:10 - Nobody seen in a hole; no birds heard while doing roost watch at PHOBO. 19 July 7:45 - No birds seen. No acorns remaining 16 August 10:00 No bird seen. 1997 12 April 10:30 - Started obs. to see if they are mate guarding. 12:00 - Ended obs. Birds seem to be spending time towards LAZ, but I can't see very well from my vantage point. Possible nest in tree on ridge leading from Bianca to LAZ. 18 April 8:30 - There are babies. In above tree. Hole too difficult to get to/open without ladder (i.e. I climbed up and started to open the hole, but the dead limbs near broke - I heard a loud crack and quickly got back down) 21 April - Walt opens hole (using gobbler) to check on babies. 10 June 11:00 - No acorns in traditional @granary, but some acorns remaining in new granary in this year's nest tree. 7 July 9:30 - Still some acorns in nesttree of this year.
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Pairs + Helpers (8♂, 9♀) Remove Plague (6,2) Knoll (3,2) ♀ ISO70 (2,1) 180D (6,2) ♂ Blon3 (1,3) Murf (2,2) CVI (5,2) ♀ OKConal (1,1) MPHF (6,4) (3,9) LPHF (0,1) ♂ Gade (0,5) Road1 (7,4) ♀(Note) Road3 (3,3) ♀ SHWest (1,0) ♂ ARF, too (1,3) ♂ BlackOak (3,4) ♂,♀? Lambert (0,1) FAAR (1,1) LA2 (3,4) Multiple breeders (8♂, 9♀) Remove Refutel (2,1) H-B (2,1) Blontwo (3',1) CVCarande (2,1) SHill (2,1) Phobo (2,2) AI (3,1) KeepOut (3,1) ArnShwartz (2,1) LHay (1,2) Gazebo (1,3) Larb (1,2) Questionable ↓ Chongo (Not sure) Buckeye (FE?) Blomone (FE?) CVZ (No♀? ) Weate (No♂?) ♀→Wolfpack (208?.?) 2ff BIANCA (comp) Wolfpack R3
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Pairs + Helpers (80s, 90s) Remove Plague (6,2) Knoll (3,2) ♀ ISO7D (2,1) 180D (6,2) ♂ Blon3 (1,3) Murf (2,2) CVI (5,2) ♀ OKConal (1,1) MPHF (6,4) (3,9) LPHF (0,1) ♂ Gate (0,5) Road1 (7,4) ♀(Note) Road 3 (3,3) ♀ SHWest (1,0) ♂ ARF,too (1,3) ♂ BlackOak (3,4) ♂,♀? Lambert (0,1) FAAR (1,1) LA2 (3,4) Multiple breeders (80s, 90s) Remove Refutel (2,1) H-B (2,1) Blontwo (3',1) CVGrande (2,1) SHill (2,1) Phobo (2,2) ♀→Wolfpack(2007?) AI (3,1) KeepOut (3,1) ArnShwartz (2,1) LHay (1,2) Gazebo (1,3) Larb (1,2) Questionable Remove Chongo (Not sure) Buckeye (FE?) Blonow (FE?) CVZ (No♀?) WGate (No♂?) 297 BIANCA (comp under) Wolfpack R3
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