2000 2001 Walt's Poetry Melanerpes formicivorus Hay-Blom HWHB 9 May New hole! Lots of stores left here. 1400. Opened it: 8 eggs, incubated (one not developing). EHD: 13 May. See map on back. 17 May 1500. Nest empty! Failed! 30 May 1440. Plenty of stores, but none anywhere, much less in a hole. 9 June Bird in a new hole! Low, over toward LHay. 19 July Still stores. 30 August " " 2001 9 April Bird in hole opened by Joey last summer/fall down above Soto springs. 10 April 1130. Nobody in the hole, but I checked it (peeped it) anyway: empty. Looks like they cleared it down so far they opened a 1" hole through the bottom! I plugged it from the bottom, but they may have cleared this one too much to use. 24 April 1330. Bird in hole! ✓ SOTO SPRINGS 30 April 1015. Nobody in hole, but checked anyway: 2 eggs! ① 27.4 x 20.3 ② 27.2 x 20.3. Finally! Egg #2 has a dent in it. 5 May 1600. 4 eggs. Egg #1 is OK; #2 is not developing. Of the other 2 eggs, #3 (26.5 x 20.2) is empty (!), while #4 (27.5 x 19.7) may be OK but even it has a tiny crack/dent in it and may fail. Not so good! This group is NOT H-B; it's a new group (SOTO SPRINGS)