2010 Waltid Poenq Melanerpes formicivorus Gate HNHR 3 May A00. Checked the high hole (#6899): 2 fresh eggs. Bird in the hole when we got here. 7 May 1030. Still 2 eggs! Only 1 developing. Bird in the hole when I got here. EHD: 12 May; Band ~ 2 June. 15 May 1000. Checked the nest: 1 baby, ~1/2 do, +1 unhatched egg. Cleaned out the other hole, which had water in it. Band ~ 3 June. 3 June 1100. Banded the 1 kid here. No stores to speak of in the Gate tree, at least. 17 June 2100. Ambushed the hole over toward the gate - 1 8', a 2Y bird I think. 9 July Ambushed the new hole: 2 NOBAs + the fledgling. Whoopee!