Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4452
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2003 Walter D Koernig 4 Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Haystack HNNR (28 April) work, it could be used again. (All but The bottom foot or so had fallen.) 17 May 915. Checked The fixup-old hole in The granny. Looks nice, but it's empty. 21 May 1730. Bird in a (new) hole in The crappy 2° snag! Will need a ladder for it, I fear. 22 May 1400. Bird in the new hole again: opened it up. 6 fresh eggs; hole tagged #5805. ① 25.8 × 19.0. ② 26.1 × 19.8 ③ 25.8 × 19.7 ④ 25.0 × 19.6 ⑤ 25.3 × 19.4 ⑥ 24.9 × 19.6, 3 June 1615. Still 6 eggs - fertile at least. 8 June 1300. Well I'm not sure what prompted me to say the eggs were fertile on the 3rd (because now all 6 are still in there, but 5 clearly did not develop and the 6th seems to have a hairline crack and be all dried out. Sheesh! There was woone in the hole, and I removed the eggs, which are clearly going nowhere. Lots of stores left, at least! I opened that 6th egg - it was mostly dried up but did have a sac with a smallish embryo in it, so it (at least) was fertile. 14 June 715. Bitch over here. 3 July 1400. Bird in hole: 2 kids, 3-4 do + 3 infertile eggs ① 24.7 × 20.1 ② 24.5 × 20.0 ③ 25.2 × 19.17. Lots of stores still here. 29 Sept Lots (relatively) of stars here, some even fresh!