1981 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Road) Hastings Reservation (17 April) finally left at 920. At least she's leaving her egg in there this time. 1020. 9383 enters hole. 1023. 8294 peeks into hole but doesn't enter. 1034-1035, 9 looks out; again at 1041-1042. Leaves with a wood chip at 1043. 1054. Ron finally coming. Going to check hole. 1100. Still 1 egg. Ron taking over. (18 April) 600. Watching. Ron's over watching another hole where there was some interest yesterday afternoon. 631. 9383 enters hole. 633. 8294 at hole briefly; leaves w/o enter. 642. 8486 comes, looks in the hole for ~a minute. 644. 9269 comes to hole; 9 walks to the 9 inside. After ~a minute she goes in. Then 9383 (for sure) looks out, then leaves. Within 30s 9269 comes out carrying the Marked egg (laid yesterday by 9383), flies to the granary with it, hops around, pecks at it and puts it down somewhere. She then returns directly to the hole, hesitates ~5s before reentering and coming out with a second egg (presumably just laid by 9383) and flies to the granary with it! At that point 8486 came back and looked into the hole; Ron whelped from the side of $ PO Hill, and I got out of the hide briefly, scaring birds off. Now at 655 I'm back in watching again. We got it!! 710. Just went up and checked the hole: it's empty. Meanwhile Ron yells over that 9269 may be laying in the