Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4453
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2005 Walt D Koering 2007 Melamurpes fomicivorus LARB2 HNHR 25 Apr 1515. Checked the hole here: it's salvageable, but currently a bit mushy & wet. If there are birds here, they are probably nesting elsewhere. 2007 18 May 1130. Eric found a new hole here with a bird in it - LARB2 returns? 1415. Opened the hole (now tagged #8401). 2 eggs. Apparently laying. 31 May 1500. Checked The hole: 8 eggs, 1a rent. This would put The LED about 22 May and hatching ~ 2 June (banding ~23 June). Wonder if this is Gazebo's nest? 2 June Back fell out - hole empty. Birds generally flew back - not up toward Gazebo, so it's possible this was a LARB nest, but who knows? I patched The hole up as best I could but it's always going to be marginal.