Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4453

Koenig, Walter D., 1950-

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Acorn woodpecker Acorn woodpecker--Behavior--California Hastings Natural History Reservation (Calif.)

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2005 Waltin D Koenig 2007 Melanerpes formicivorus 2008 2009 Roosters Log 2010 Knoll 1st nest 13 Apr? δ 2749 + uk 2nd bird MacRobuts 1st nest 14Apr? δ 2973 for sure. 2007 Read! 25 May. 34352. Ambushed at nest. (1st nest if they have another). [was NOBA] 2008 Cavity 22 May. 2 birds: δ 3165 for sure + 2nd bird who I think was δ 3284 (but can't be sure). 2009 LODO 17 June. δ 4218 for sure roosted. MACR 18 June. δ M/pos #2973 pretty sure; by himself. (assumes it was one of the breeders!) Hay-Bloom 19 June. δ Red/LB-um #4302 for sure! Celtin 25 June δ 0?/m #4194 for sure, by himself. 2010 BLMP 2 June δ M/Red #3703 for sure, by himself. CECN 7 June δ M/Red-w #3327 for sure, by himself. MACK 8 June Ambushed nest: δ 2973 roosting by himself.

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2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes furnicarius Misc Recruitment Sites R11 HNHE 17 March 900. Came back and checked here while doing phenology on the Arnold: no stored acorns, and no sign of birds R9 1010. No sign of anyone. R23, R24, 1045. No acorns at either. R22. No acorns here. 18 June 1100. R29. Sat up here for 20+ minutes, but noted no evidence of any activity or stores. 2010 ✓ In artificial hole. 3 June Banded the 4 kids at R28. No stores that we know of.

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2004 Walter D Koening 2005 Melanerpes formicivorus 2006 2007 Buckeye HNHR 19 June 1130. Banded & bled the 4 kids here. There do seem to be a few stores left, although whatever there is must be from fall 2002. 23 August Still a very few stores here, so they didn't run out this summer. 2005 6 April 930. Lots of stores. 5 May 1545. Bird in the low hole facing up the hill in the side tree. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 2 May 1300. Bird in hole (tagged #272): 5 eggs, 2-3 do (EHD ~ 15 May). ① 23.8 x 19.2 ② 24.0 x 19.5 ③ 23.4 x 18.9 ④ 24.5 x 19.5 ⑤ 25.3 x 19.0. 17 May 1145. 5 kids, 1-2 do. Band ~ 5 June 2 June 1530. Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores: almost certainly. 7 Sept lots of (old) acorns here, along with a few new ones as well 2006 25 June 900. Banded & bled the 2 kids here. (This is a renest.) Tree tag is #394. (Hole tagged #272.) Still stores here. 2007 23 April 1230. Stores: Yes. Bird in hole: NO. 13 May 1100. Bird in usual hole (#272). 5 eggs, fairly fresh: ① 23.5 x 18.4 ② 23.6 x 18.5 ③ 23.0 x 19.0 ④ 23.4 x 19.0 ⑤ 23.6 x 18.8.

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2007 Wallbird Koenig 2008 2009 Buckeye HNHR 10 June 1130. Been fed & bled the 4 kids. Lots of acorns. 2008 26 May 900. Checked the old hole (#272): not in very good shape. They have been roosting there, but the nest must be elsewhere I'd afraid. Plenty of stores. 6 June 1100. Opened the new hole I found up here; it's in good shape but empty. Hole is in a blue oak down from the old nest tree, in the forest to the west. Bird was in the hole yesterday when I came up here. 12 June 1030. The new hole is still empty. Plenty of stores still here, by the way. 19 June 1000. Bird in the new hole. 22 June 1200. Bird in new hole again, but'. It's still empty! 30 June None in the (new) hole. Or any others, for that matter. 22 July 2100. Ambushed at the old nest hole (#272): empty; and the new hole, where I got 1 bird only - #2826. Sheesh. 2009 22 May 1000 Checked both holes (new one #272): empty. Stored acorns: Yes, definitely. 3 June 1230. 2 birds in the upper (old) hole. 11 June 1400. 5 eggs, 3-4 days inc., in hole #272.

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2009 2010 Walt D Keeney Melanerpes formicivorus Buckeye H N H R 22 Time 1030. Checked The nest; 4 kids, 2-3 do. Band ~ 10 July. Set The ambusher in case there's a NOBTA here. 2010 Tree ( H 394 ) 5 May 1300. Bird in The traditional hole (#272). 1500. Hole checked: empty but in good shape. 12 May 1500. Hole 272 still empty. 30 May 1030. Hole 272 still empty. Plenty of stores.

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2005 WaltvD Poenig Melanerpes formicivorus Chongo HNHR 6Apr Plenty of stores here. 10 May Bird in old hole in mangrany: 3 fresh eggs! 15May 930. 4 eggs: ①25.8×19.7 ②26.1×19.5 ③25.5×18.8 ④26.0×19.5. EHD~5/22. 7June 1600. Nest empty! Bummer. I think Neil did some kind of a watch here, but I'm going to get an ambush in hopes of getting them roosting. 19 June 1445. New nest, in hole way on top of the tree in a hole I can just barely reach. At least 3 eggs, freshish. Measured 1:25.2×19.9. EHD~29 June. (could have been 4) 23June Neil reports that the incubating & here is one of the 8's I caught at Chimmi! 5July 1400. Checked the hole: 1 kid, a good 10 do, + at least 1 unhatched egg. Time to get that &! Stores? Yes. 6July 1100. Got the &; then went ahead and banded the 1 kid even though he's still kind of young. 7Sept. A fair number of (old) stores here 2006 22June No stores left. Not much sign of anyone here, really, last year's hole fell prior to the spring.

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2007 2008 2009 2010 WolfdKoeny Melanerpes fomicevorus Chongo HWR 23 Apr 1250, Acorns: Yes. Bird in hole? Over at Chinni (which could very well be these guys) but not here. 29 May Stores out. Pretty quiet here. Birds at Chinni but nothing much going on here, best we can tell. 11 June Watched roosting here, but ward + saw nada. (A.d) 2008 30June 1630. Bird in the roost hole in the Live Oaks somewhat down from the granary. Checked it, but it's empty. 2009 14 May 1120. Seem to be out of stores here. 2010 5 May There are some stores here. 12 May 1600. After Adam reported a bird in a hole here I climbed up to hole 889427 (in the granary; tree 4407): 4 incubated eggs! EHD 5/16. 11 June 8+71 stores here.

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2005 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus (Chongo) ↓ Chongo Chimmi HNHR 6Apr00) Plenty of stores and a bird here! Apparently, there was a group here last winter. 25Apr07 1030. Bird in the highest hole over in that tree beyond the granary with lots of holes. 1130. Opened The hole (now tagged #910): 4 eggs, several days incubated (at least). ① 27.8×19.4 ② 26.1×20.3 ③ 30.9×21.9 ④ 25.9×20.1 That 3rd egg is about as big as they come! Presumably this is Chongo's nest! 3May 1630. 2 babies ~2 do + 2 unhatched eggs, 1 of which developed, at least. Band~ 20May. 12May There are eggs over at the "real" Chongo, so this is not Chongo, it's a new group that I'll call Chimmi. No known granary for these guys, all of whom (all 3?) are NOBAs.(I think)(at least a NOBA pair here). 17May This is The 2nd time I've tried to catch someone feeding, but noone has come. I'm clearly going to have to ambush at night or something instead. 9NOBA came, finally. (Didn't go in) 3NOBA fed. OK; I'm going to get someone after all. 1100. Got a δ. Now #4084. 18May 1530 Got a ♀: #4086. Is this it? 20May 1400. No! Got δ#2 (now#4090). Hopefully that's it! 1530. Returned & banded the 2 kids. There are, by the way, a few stores across up near the nest!

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2005 2006 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 2 Chimmi HNNR 19 June 1400. 2 birds (adults) in nest hole: 2nd nest? 23 June 1400. Checked the hole: empty. 7 Sept Don't see any stores here or anything. 2006 22 June There are more holes in the nest tree than I'd realized up at the top. They're empty, however, and there's been no sign of a group here this spring. 2007 23 Apr 7 1245. Bird in the (old) hole! 3 May 1100. Checked hole (#910): 4 fresh eggs: ① 24.5 x 18.6 ② 23.9 x 18.7 ③ 23.7 x 18.8 ④ 23.7 x 19.0. 29 May 1235. Finally got a NOBA ♂, Quite possibly a 2nd one here as well. 30 May 1215. So far, after a couple of hours, The only birds feeding are ♀4092 (a lot) and the newly banded ♂4368 (a little). No sign of a 2nd ♂ so far, or even the 2nd ♀ for that matter.

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2005 Walt D Koenig 2006 2007 Melanerpes formicivorus Plague Annex HNHR 2 June 1500. Bird in the high hole! 3 June 1100. Checked it: 4 fresh eggs! ① 27.0 × 19.6 ② 27.6 × 19.8 ③ 27.7 × 20.2 ④ 27.6 × 19.5. EHD ~ 13 June. Who's here? 15 June 1800. 4 kids, ~ 2 do. Band ~ 4 July. 13 June Set up ambush here. 24 June 1600. Got one of the NOBA♀♀. 26 June 1245. Caught a 2nd NOBA - who turned out to be a ♂! Who is This? Sheesh. He's now 84188, at any rate. Still a 2nd NOBA♀ here? 1345. Back to try for that 2nd♀, who Ned says is here. 1400. Got her! 30 June 1230. Banded & bled the 3 kids. Stores? Not sure where, if they have any. 2006 14 June 1200. Justin found the hole here, which is almost at the top of the tree that's right near where the 2 creeks come together (it's tagged #53 & #54). It has 3 kids ~ 14 do! Hole Tagged #690. 19 June 945. Banded & bled the 3 kids here. Stores? Heck if I know - I've never known of a decent granary here! 2007 23 April 1230. Bird in 2006 hole. 24 April 900. Hole empty (I think), but in good shape

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2007 2008 2009 Walter D Koerig Melanerpes formicivorus Plague Anney HNR 3 May 1345. Checked the hole (which Eric had found an egg in, I believe): empty! 16 May 1130. Bird in new hole ~3' below 2006 hole: 4 eggs, fresh. Hole now tagged #679. ① 25.2 × 19.7 ② 24.4 × 19.7 (dented); ③ 25.4 × 19.8 ④ 24.6 × 19.3, 14 June 945. Banded & bled the 3 kids. Stores? Who knows? 2008 Tree tag #4427 9 May 1400. Bird in new hole! (different tree as well) Hole now tagged #8607. 3 eggs, fresh (still laying?) ① 26.5 × 20.5 ② 27.2 × 20.5 ③ 26.5 × 20.6, 14 May 1300. 4 eggs, The 3+④ 27.0 × 19.7. Hatched 21 May 26 May 845. 3 6algis + 3 M/Red #4430 in the hole (!). No eggs, so presumably they all hatched. Banded ~11 June (I wouldn't have thought they were 5 so, but maybe they were...) 10 June 1200. Banded + bled the 3 kids here. 2009 28 April 1600. Checked hole #8607 (bird there several days ago): empty, New hole nearby; not ready yet. 22 May 1045. Bird in hole 8607: 4 eggs, incubated! 12 June 1000. Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores??

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2010 Waltham Opening Melanerpes formicivorus Plague Anney HWR 12 May 1430. Bird in (old) hole #5561 (tree 4417): 4 fresh eggs. EHD ~ 23 May 30 May 1000. 1 fled ~ 630, + 1 unhatched egg. Band - 13 Time.

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2005 2006 2007 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes fomicivorus Plague HWNK 10 May 1000. Finally found the nest. It's in the tree over by the upper barn, but in a new hole much higher than the prior old holes. They have 4 fresh eggs. I measured 1: 27.5 x 19.8. I also tagged the hole (although it's in one of those thin dead limbs that's unlikely to last long) #913. 20 May 830. Checked the nest: 5 eggs, not hatched yet. LED = 11 May; should hatch 22 May. 23 May 1400. 4 kids + 1 unhatched egg. ~2 da. 10 June 1230. Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores? You bet. 25 July 800. A second nest here in the old hole in The 20 tree: 3 kids, banding age. So I banded Them! Stores still? Oh yes. 1 Sept. Still stored acorns. 2006 5 June 830. Banded & bled the 2 kids. Acorns: yes. Also one infertile egg in the nest - unmarked? Measurements: 25.2 x 20.0. #1? Hard to tell. 2007 23 April 1015. Bird in (old) hole (#247): 5 eggs, incubated; ① 25.1 x 19.1 ② 24.1 x 19.5 ③ 23.5 x 18.0 ④ 23.7 x 19.5 ⑤ 23.9 x 19.8. 14 May 930. Banded & bled the 2 kids. Plenty of stores left. 27 June Banded & bled the 3 kids (2nd nest). Still stores!

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2008 2009 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Plague HNHR 1 Apr 7 1300. Attempting to count stores here! 8575. There are a lot more holes here than there used to be. I suspect that there actually could easily be on the order of 10,000 stored acorns here. 22 Apr 7 1130. Bond in traditional hole (tag #247). Checked it: empty but in good shape. 2009 24 May 1300. Bond in old hole #247 in The 2° tree: 5 eggs (1 a runt), fresh. 4 June 1000. Checked the nest: now 1 hatchling + 5 eggs, (1 a runt). Guess they were still laying on 5/24 (LED 5/25). 7 June 1045. Still only 1 kid + 6 eggs (1 a runt). Must have been miscounting all that time. 3 of the eggs had not developed at all (not including the runt); I collected the 2 that had and took tissue from them. Both embryos (4749/50) were alive but nowhere close to hatching - they must have been laid very late in the game. They were ~15mm in length. 17 June 1015. Watching. ① δ M/DB-W(N) #4230. ② δ AOAP(Leg) #3982. ③ δ♂-W(M) #4449. ④ δ? MV-LP/M ? (Seen well) ⑤♀ M/MV #3983. ⑥ δ M/DB-W(N) #2056. 4207

Alam stores (1 Apr) 2008) 718 (633 700 700 } Plague tree 6451 1040 1830 Barn - 50 930 1974 2nd tree 150 Tel pole Total: 6450 1975 150 8575

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2005 WaltrD Koenig 2006 2007 Melanerpes formicivorus Calgin HNHR 3 May Neil solved several mysteries here. First, these birds do have a granary, it's the blue oak up Red H?1 (tree#146)! There are a fair number of stored acorns in it that I'd never noticed before. Second, these birds do fly over the chaparral and to the tree with the nest holes. Third, he ID'd several of the birds 17 May 830. Bird in new (lower) hole: 2 eggs. ① 29.8×17.7 ② 24.0×19.0. Laying. 22 May 1700. 6 eggs. Others: ③ 28.1×18.3 ④ 27.8×18.2 ⑤ 27.8×18.3 ⑥ 22.5×18.2. EHD ~ 6/1 3 June 1130. 2 kids, ~3-4 do, +3 unhatched eggs, at least 2 of which probably developed at least Band ~ 20 June 19 June 1500. Banded + bled the 2 kids. Stores? ⑤ [illegible]; [illegible] Yes - lots over on the way up to the Chongo trail. 1 Sept. 1445. Still a few stored acorns here. 8 E-WIND/M j4178 in granary. 2006 5 June 900. Banded + bled the 5 kids Hole now tagged #681. 2007 3 May 1115. Bird in higher hole (tag#100). 13 May 1200. Still 4 eggs. 5 June Banded + bled the single kid. Stores? Yes.

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2008 Waltid Kewney 2009 Melanerpes formicivorus Cabin HN+IR 7 July 1630. Banded the 2 kids here (hole #100; usual tree). Plenty of stores across the way. 2009 17 April 1230, Checked The Nest: 1 hatching + 2 eggs. Still hatching. 19 April 1815. All 3 kids hatched & looking good. Band 8 May. 17 May 1445. Returned the kid I brought to show at The flower show. One other kid was looking out when I came and flew out. He did fine, best I could tell. Fledging has begun! 3 June 1500. Checked hole #681 in tree H1651 (old hole): 2 eggs, fresh, along with a bird (!) who I left in there. I did mark the eggs, however. 9 June 1045. Eggs gone! Instead, there was a bunch of lichen and an adult Peromyscus, who I threw out. I don't think I caused them to abandon, not even having taken the bird out of The hole (she flew out on his/her own). But- it's possible, I guess. 18 June 1300. 3 eggs, fairly fresh, now in hole #100 (tree H1651-higher hole). EHD ~27 June. 25 June 2000 B orn #4194 roosted in the nest tonight

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2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Calvin 29 June 1430. Checked the nest: 3 kids, ~2 do, plus one developed but unhatched egg. Band ~ 18 July. Note: final clutch here was apparently 4; LED=19 June ? (Or did I miss an egg on 18 June?) No, probably not, but that does give them a short time period! 8 July 900. Banded and bled the 3 kids. S571 stores I think, but we'll check to make sure. Yes - four number. 2010 8 May 1400. Banded the 3 kids (+ a helper & who was in the hole). 11 June 1115. J or K-18 # on gremany.

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2005 2006 Wattled Poemg Melanerpes formicivorus Cavity HNHR 11 April 1400. New hole in usual tree: 9 fresh eggs, all normal. Hole tagged #6595. EHD ~14 Apr 7. 21 April 1245. Still 9 eggs. 24 April 900. Checked the nest: still the 9 eggs, but none of them have developed! Another completely infertile clutch! (Note: one of the eggs had broken somewhere & was intact but- frained; all other 8 were undeveloped). Took them. Measurements: ①25.0 × 19.3 ②24.3 × 19.2 ③22.8 × 17.6 ④24.1 × 19.2 ⑤24.1 × 19.3 ⑥23.7 × 19.7 ⑦23.7 × 19.2 ⑧24.1 × 19.4 ⑨24.5 × 19.1 (empty) 5 May 1500. Checked Hole (6595): 6 fresh eggs: (1 a runt) ①23.5 × 19.4 ②23.1 × 19.8 ③24.1 × 19.1 ④23.5 × 19.8 ⑤23.4 × 20.6 ⑥19.6 × 16.7. Hopefully these will be OK. EHD ~15 May. 18 May 745. 6 kids, ~1 do, +4 unhatched eggs (1 a runt). Looks like a clutch of 10 here! 22 May 1630. Still 6 kids although 1 on the way out. 4 June 1100. Banded & bled the 5 kids. 2006 11 May 1424. 6 eggs-3 day incubated. Hole #264. ①23.3 × 19.2, ②24.0 × 19.1 ③23.0 × 20.2 (this egg ③ has a small puncture) ④23.6 × 19.8 ⑤23.4 × 20.2 ⑥24.0 × 19.1 Acorns? Yes. 6 June 1215. Banded the 5 babies. Still starts.

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2007 Walter D Koenig 2008 2009 Melanerpes formicivorus Cauty HNHR 21 April 1500. Came over here only to flush a bird out of a hole 4 near babies! 6 kids, ~8 days old. 5 May 830. Banded the 6 babies, 4313-4318. Plenty of stores. 27 May 1630 10 eggs in artificial cavity #2. Fresh! 23 June 1000. Banded & bled the 5 kids (!) Still lots of stores. 2008 22 May 1945. Watched roosting: 83165 for sure + a 2nd bird who I suspect was 83284. 18 June 1400. Banded the 4 kids here. Stores? Good question, given that their tree fell. I'd say yes, but I'd better check. (Yes.) 2009 27 April? 1380. 8 in artificial hole by shed: empty. 11 June 945. Bird in artificial hole: still empty. 2010 1 June 2000. Watched roosting here, seeing 80-w/wh-dr #4441; 8m [DB-wh (w)]; 8w-dk/w? The last spent the night in the nest, whoever he is. 2 June 1500. Banded the 2 kids here. Stores: Yes,

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2008 2009 Waltwd Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus RE17 LNHHR 18 June Caught one bird - a NOBA ♀ - in the hole down between my house and The Y. 25 June 2100. Missed one bird, but otherwise hit the jackpot tonight: 5 birds - 2 banded ♂♂ and 3 NOBA fledglings - in the new hole in the blue oak (now tagged #8616) up the canyon from the granary, almost as far as MSH11. Cavity is now tagged #8617; presumably this is probably where the (missed) nest was. Still stores here! 2009 24 May 1500. Bird in old Middle School Hill hole (hole 908 in tree 1503): 5 incubated eggs. I suspect this is RE17 but we'll have to watch to confirm! 4 June 1015. Still 5 eggs, cold. No one incubating; apparently abandoned. I collected one egg to see if we can get tissue from it + eventually see who this was. 17 June 800. 3♂ birds flycatching on The wires up towards Red House: (1) ♀ Ddm-red/m #4658, (2) ♂ la-whin/m #4249. (3) 10 July No stores here.

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2005 (Walter) Poinig Melanerpes formicivorus MacRoberts HNNR 6 April Lots of stores, but none in any holes. 12 April 1330. ① Cleaned out a starling nest w/ kids (#305) ② Hole #1303 has 5 2-3 day-old eggs. Watch for possible experiment! lots of stores here. 14 April 1900. 3 M/R2d-D5 #2973 roosted here tonight for sure. 15 April 930. Took The 5 eggs and incubated Them (2nd experimental removal of The year). ① 25.4 x 20.3 ② 25.2 x 19.9 ③ 25.7 x 19.7 ④ 24.4 x 19.6 ⑤ 24.9 x 19.4 Eggs look well incubated. (in incubator) 19 April 1100. 2 of The eggs have hatched. 3 More to go. (2 more hatched; last one developed). 27 April 1300. Bird in hole (same one, #1303): 4 fresh eggs. ① 24.4 x 20.0 ② 24.8 x 20.5 ③ 24.8 x 19.9 ④ 24.9 x 20.6. Excellent! EHD ~ 6 May. 9 May 1300. 5 kids (!) and no unhatched eggs. ~HD 5/7; LED 4/28, Band ~ 5/28. 16 May 1145. Bleed for 4 kids for SI (and a blood sample also) ① 4067 41.9g LB/lue ② 4068 36.0g Red-DGn ③ 4069 42.0g Yellow-Mv ④ 4070 37.9g Dam-Mv 23 May 1430. Bleed the kids: ① 76.1g ② 70.6g ③ 73.7g ④ 72.2g

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2005 2006 2007 Walter D Voering Melanerpes formicivorus MacRoberts HNHR 30 May 1130. Caught 8299 for blood, then banded abled the 4 kids. ① 82.7g ② 80.6g ③ 79.7g ④ 75.4g 22 June 1200. Bird in hole over on Oak Ridge (tagged #6594): 3 eggs, incubated. ① 24.5 × 20.1 ② 24.0 × 20.1 (dented); ③ 23.7 × 19.8 (severely dented). Probably only #1 will hatch. 29 June 1330. As predicted, only 1 kid, ~3-4 do. 8 July 1545. Banded & bled the (single) kid. Stores? Oh yes. 1 Sept. 1450. Lots of stores here still. 2006 2 May 1115. Cleaned out hole #1305 of 2 older starling kids and a nest. 1120. The traditional hole (1303) empty but in good shape. Lots of stores here. Also, while I was at it, I opened #6594, which was also empty but not all fixed up like #1303, 2007 24 April 800. Stores: Yes. Bird in hole? No. But I checked the usual hole anyway and found 1 runt egg! 1 May 1315. 5 eggs (runt gone): ① 25.0 × 19.1 ② 24.2 × 18.2 ③ 25.7 × 18.7 ④ 25.2 × 18.7 ⑤ 26.6 × 18.7 LED ~29 Apr 7. ONH

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2007 2008 2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus MacRobertz HNHR 30 May 900. Banded & 6led two 3 kids. Stores here? Yasum. Also cleared out a starling nest with 3 kids in Hole #6594. 2008 21 May 1330. Banded The 4 kids here. Lots of stores 2009 9 April 1100. Made a new cut in The 1303 hole. Empty, but in good shape. Lots of stores. 15April 1530. Checked all 3 holes here: #1305: 5 starling eggs; nest removed #6594: empty; in good shape #1303: empty; in good shape. Birds all over by #1305 hole; mate- quariting, perhaps? 20April 840. Hole 6594: still empty. 15 June 1200. Banded The 3 kids (hole 1303). Lots of stores still here. 18June 2000. At roosting, ? RN/red #2973 roosted. This assumes it was one of the breeder 878 and not one of the helpers (84599). 2010 6 April 1645. Opened Hole #1303: empty but in good shape. 6 May 900. Cleared a EUST nest from hole #1305. (3 eggs). 930. Checked hole #1305: empty. Lots of stores here.

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2010 Walter D. Keeney Melanerpes formicivorus MacRoberts HNHR 9 June 430. Ambushed the nest hole (where there are older kids) getting the unidentified ♂ There, who turned out to be ♂2973 - a BM here not seen since last June, I rebanded him.

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2009 Walter Koenig Melanurpes formicivorus Amador HNNR 26 May 1200. Checked The nest (hole 889006): 4 eggs (1 a runt), developed but cold. Noone here When I arrived. I Think They were supposed to have hatched by now...? 15 June 1030. Checked the lower hole (889008) which is also supposed to have hatched: 5 eggs (1 a runt) - all look fresh and unincubated (!)

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2005 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Knoll HNHE 6 April Six birds flycatching here. Lots of stores. 11 April 1300. Hole #6593: 4 fresh eggs. Potential experimental group. Cleaned out a Starling nest (3 youngish babies) from hole #5555, but at least 2 other Starling nests around here! 13 April 1900. Watched nesting: 8 Dblue #2750 was in, but then got replaced conspicuously by 8 Lpm#2749 plus a 2nd bird I missed. Both stayed. 14 April 1000. Took the 4 eggs for this year's 1st experimental removal. Incubated them. ①26.8×19.6 ②26.3×19.3 ③26.3×18.2 ④25.4×19.3 24 April I finally gave up on the eggs, none of which developed! Banner. 3 May 1000. Checked hole (same one tag 6593): 4 fresh eggs ①25.1×19.1 ②25.0×19.1 ③25.6×18.9 ④25.6×19.1. 14 May 1345. 2 kids, 1 do, + 7 unhatched & infertile (or at least undeveloped) eggs (1 a runt). Looks like a final clutch of 9 here (1 a runt), of which only 2 hatched! Band 3 June. 2 ?? laying here?! What's the deal? 1 June 1500. Banded the 2 kids, one of which has a bum R eye. These guys have problems. 23 June 1100. New (2nd) nest in other tree (high hole #289) 5 freshish eggs. Measured 1: 26.9×17.5. 5 July 1500. Hole 5563 (lower hole) in good shape.

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2005 (Waltort) Koenig 2006 Melanerpes famicivorus Knoll H NHR (5 July) Meanwhile, in the nest, There are 3 kids ~7 do plus 1 unhatched eggs. 11 July 730. Banded & bled the 3 kids.(one pretty ruddy). 2006 3 May 1000. New hole! even higher up in locust closest to the labs, but facing the pump. 4 eggs, fresh or infertile (at least 2 are definitely infertile): ① 25.6 x 19.4 ② 25.9 x 19.1 ③ 25.9 x 19.6 (IF);④ 26.5 x 19.6 (IF) 9 May 1000. Noone's been in the hole the last 2-3 days, so I checked it: empty! √ now #249 This (new) hole is not tagged, but it's in The locust closest to the labs, high, about 2' higher and facing the opposite direction from hole 289. 26 May 930. Checked the new hole again, now tagged #249. 4 eggs again, this time looking better. Unfortunately, I had a hard time reaching them this time and crushed The one I took out to measure, so I did not take out the other 3. The one I did take out was 25.7 x 19.9 and ~5-6 days incubated. So should hatch ~1 June. 3 June 1230. 2 babies, ~4 do + 1 unhatched + undeveloped egg (25.5 x 20.1). Too bad I didn't mess it back on the 26th. I'm confident at least 3 eggs would have hatched had I not messed up. 18 June 1200. Banded the 2 kids here. Still stores: Yes-

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2007 2008 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Kynoll HNHR 17 May 1300. New hole high in the locust tree on the far side of the barn: 5 eggs, fresh. Hole tagged #696. Tree tagged #6905. 26 May 1000. Checked hole: still 5 eggs, still look unincubated. Probably all infertile. Measured them: ① 26.1 × 20.2 ② 25.7 × 20.3 ③ 25.4 × 20.3 ④ 24.6 × 20.3 ⑤ 24.9 × 19.6. 1 June 945. Nest empty. Lots of stones still here. 14 June 730. 2nd nest in hole # tagged #289. 5 eggs, look fresh (or infertile again!) 22 June 1715. Still 5 eggs - still not developing. ① 25.4 × 19.6 ② 25.2 × 19.6 ③ 25.9 × 19.1 ④ 25.5 × 19.4 ⑤ 25.1 × 19.4. Still lots of stones; all they need are some fertile eggs! 30 June 1000. Still 5 eggs, still infertile. Pulled them, just in case they are willing to try again. Still stones here, of course. 12 July 815. Bird in 1st nest hole (#696): 4 eggs, fresh (or yet again infertile). ① 26.4 × 20.0 ② 25.5 × 19.6 ③ 25.7 × 19.9 ④ 26.1 × 19.5. Try #3. 2008 4 July 1400. Bird in high hole (#696): 4 eggs, fresh (whatever that's worth). ① 25.6 × 20.5 ② 25.8 × 20.0 ③ 25.5 × 20.0 ④ 25.0 × 20.0. 5 July Jamie caught 84204 in a net at the water trough across from the lower barn.

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2008 2009 2010 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Knoll HNMK 12 July 1300. Checked the nest: still 4 eggs, not developing. Lots of stores here. Yet another infertile clutch here! 2009 13 May 1700. Looks suspicious up at hole #696. Yes! 2 hatchlings + 4 eggs - 2 developed, 1 not developed, 1 runtish (a large runt; underdeveloped in any case). Wow! Finally a real nest here! 3 June 1040. Chubbed back up and guarded the 3 kids. Stores: oh yes, 2010 7 April 1030. Checked/opened hole #696: empty.

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2005 2007 Waltor D Koenig Melanerpes formicaros Y H.N.H.R 12 May 1000. I opened this hole, in a small snag just next to The old Co. road ~100' up from the Y (tree is tagged #4905, 4906, +4907; snag is #4907). Contents: 1 rnut egg! I'm pretty sure this is a different group from Blompond, even though they're just across from Blompond (see map on back). 14 May 1400. Rnut egg is gone. Instead, now there are 2 normal eggs: ① 27.6 x 17.6 ② 28.9 x 18.0. 15 May 1245. Hole empty! Still tossing? 16 May 1130. Hole empty. 19 May 730. Hole empty. 24 May 1100. " "" 2007 7 May There does appear to be a group here; there are even a few stored acorns in the old magpie nest tree at the Y itself. Birds are hanging out here, in the Y sycamore and over in the trees going up toward the School House.

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2010 Walfor D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus PE 17 HNHR 6 May 1530. With a bird roosting in The hole last night I came up to check hole #8617 (free 8616): 2 chicks, ~2 jo, + 2 unhatched eggs. EHD 4 May; band 25 May.

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2005 Walter D Koentz Melanerpes formicivorus Middle School Hill (MSH) HUNR 19Apr? 1700. Walked by that tree with the nice hole in it somewhere up above the Y area only to find a bird in the hole! Not sure - this could, perhaps, be School House(?), but it's a ways away, so I'm calling it Middle School Hill (MSH). I'll need a rope to open it. See back for a tentative map. 21Apr? 1300. None in hole this time. Tree is tagged #1503. GPS: 629911 / 4027430 Much to my surprise, there is a single (one) Fresh egg in the hole! Measurements: 27.2 x 19.2. Hole tagged #908. Something is indeed up here, although I'm not sure what yet! 25Apr? 1800. Bird in hole. Checked it: 4 eggs (incl the one from 4/21). LED 4/24; hatching ~7 May. Measurements: ② 27.1 x 19.8 ③ 26.6 x 19.8 ④ 26.7 x 19.9. 1st egg (from 4/21): 27.2 x 19.2. 9 May 1430. 2 kits, 3-4 do, + nothing - just eggshells Band ~ 26 May. This tree is tagged #1503, by the way. 15 May 1010. Set to try and get the NOBA ♀ here. ①♂/ad-or → ②♂/ad-or 1200. Will have to try again later. Just the ♂ fed. 1215. Got her after all! 26 May 1000. Banded & bled the 2 kids. Stones? Heck if I know. Not sure where.

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2004 2005 Wellford Koerner Melanerpes formicivorus Blampond HNHR 3 Sept. Having seen a bird in the hole here twice, I went up and checked it, but it's empty. 2005 13 April lots of stores here. ♀ in new hole below old hole in sycamore. 1700. Opened the hole, which is ~18" below the old one (#280). 4 fresh eggs! EHD ~ 23 Apr) (could still be laying). Eggs measured: ① 24.5 x 19.5 ② 24.6 x 19.6 ③ 25.7 x 19.6 ④ 24.6 x 19.2. 24 April 1000. Checked The hole, which is now tagged #909: taken over by Starlings! They're building their nest, which I cleared out. No eggs - either of the EUST or ACWD. Sheesh! Wonder if it failed before, or because of the starlings ?? 29 April 930. Bird in the low hole (not used previously). Checked it: it's empty but being worked on. 4 May Got rid of the starling (+ her nest + 4 eggs) that was in hole #909. 14 May 1400. Birds back in hole #909 w/ 4 fresh eggs ① 26.4 x 26.9 ② 26.6 x 19.9 ③ 26.6 x 26.9 ④ 26.1 x 20.8. 26 May 1045. 5 kids (!) and no eggs, ~1-2 do. Band 26/14. I guess they had 5 eggs! (No other eggs in there.) 13 June 1000. Banded and bled the 4 kids. Stars: lots. 1 Sept Plenty of stores (old) still here.

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2006 2007 2008 2009 Walt D Koernig Melanerpes formicivorus Blandpard (BLP) HNHR 2 May 1000. Still a few stores here. (but not much!) Checked hole #909 - 2 starling nestlings. Cleaned out the nest. 18 June 1330. Banded & bled The 2 kids here. Stores? Pretty much out, I think. Actually, I see a very few in the Valley Oak, but They're definitely close to being out. 2007 20 May 1000. Banded & bled the Single kid. Stores? Oh yes. 13 July STILL stores here. Banded & bled The 3 kids. 2008 28 April Opened the new hole high in the dead, fallen limb (Hole faces Oak Ridge & is ~26' high - no more). Hole is deep but empty. Also cleared out the starling nest (4 eggs) from the Artificial cavity a few feet away from the new hole. 6 May 1108. Hole now has 3 fresh eggs: ① 24.6×17.6 ② 24.7×19.7 ③ 25.2×18.5. Hole needs a tag! 10 May 1030. 4 eggs, the 3 +④ 25.5×20.1. Hole now tagged #8608. 7 June Banded The 3 kids. Plenty of stores here. 2009 1 April There are only a very few acorns left here, best I can tell.

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2010 Waldo Poenig Melanerpes formicivorus Blmp ("Blompond") 25 March 1615. 8" in new hole in the vertical limb facing the spider tree. 5 April 1900. Eric checked the hole: still empty. Still stores here.

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2003 Walter Poenig Melanerpes farmacorum Central Canyon HNHR 7 April 1130. Starlings and stores here. Also birds, but not in any holes. 15 April 1535. Bird seen entering a new hole, pretty high in the main trunk. I'll have to check to see if the 32' ladder will be enough. 17 April 1145. Opened The new hole (there are actually 2): one (the lower one) is unfinished. The higher one could be used, but is empty thus far. Be careful with it - The bark is in pieces. Also cleared out a starling nest in the old hole next to the new ones I opened. 10 May Still no sign of a nest. Starlings in that old high hole, despite having cleaned it out earlier (17 April). 2004 11 May Pretty sure there's a starling nest in hole #262. 2005 6 April No sign of birds here, other than starlings. No stored acorns either. 2006 17 May 930. 3 birds here; flew to 2nd Canyon, where some fighting is going on, when I flushed them.

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2007 2008 2009 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Central Canyon HNYR 1 May 915. Bird in new hole in main tree! Acorns here? Yes indeed. 1400. Opened the hole: still empty & working on it. 7 May Noone in a hole this time. Still acorns, though. 12 May Cut fell out! Put back together right away. 22 June 1500. 5 eggs in hole! (Now tagged #8414) ① 25.5 x 20.4 ② 25.5 x 19.8 ③ 23.4 x 19.2 ④ 23.4 x 19.4 ③ 23.4 x 18.7 (tiny prick holes) (free 4428) 3 July 1115. 4 kids, ~2 do, + 1 unhatched but fertile egg. 13 July 810. Here to try and catch The NOBA ③. There are a few acorns stored in The tree! 945. Got him! Age? Don't know. I think it's likely he's a 2Y bird, but I wouldn't put a lot of money on it. 2008 13 May 92D. Set up to get the questionable ③ here. 140. Got her! Turns out to be ③3913. She's a 2003 LODO kid (the other ③ here, 4299, is a 2006 LODO kid). 14 May 1400. Banded the 6 kids here. Stores: Yes, 2009 9 April 1115. Noone in a hole, but plenty of stores here. 26 May 1300. 4 kids, 4-5 do, + 1 developed but unhat. egg.

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2009 WaltrD Koenig 2010 Melanerpes formicivorus Central Canyon HNHR 12 June 1200. Banded the 4 kids here. Plenty of stores. 2010 10 May 1315. Checked the nest (hole 8A14): 1 fresh egg! Lots of stores. Egg marked in net.

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2004 2006 2007 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus Second Canyon HNHR 11 May Starling nest in the traditional hole here (tagged). 2006 17 May 930. Chasing, etc. going on here. Presumably a group here again? 2007 7 May Flushed ≥1 bird from here. None in any holes and no stores, however.

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2004 2005 Waltham County Melanerpes formicivorus LODO HNHR 11 May 3 birds flushed from high hole. Interested, at least. 12 May 830. Checked hole: empty but in good shape. Still some acorns here. 20 May 945. Opened the hole (high now) again figuring there should be something, and there was: a dead bird! It was F M / Red #3914! (M: 972-76180) Huh! No obvious cause of death; she was just down in there by herself. Since I had the ladder, I went over to the other tree and cleared out a starling nest from the old nest hole there (tagged #300). It had 4 kids almost ready to fledge. 3 June 1545. None in any holes. Acorns look pretty well depleted. 24 August No acorns left here. 2005 6 Apr 7 Lots of stores here. None in the holes, though. 13 Apr 7 Bird in new hole in the old (further) tree. 14 Apr 7 1230. Opened The new hole, now tagged #902. 4 inc eggs: ① 24.9 x 20.2 ② 25.0 x 19.8 ③ 26.0 x 19.9 ④ 25.2 x 19.4. EHD 18 Apr 7. 21 Apr 7 1545. 2 kids, ~4 do, + 1 unhatched egg. Band ~ 8 May. 25 Apr 7 1430. Bled the 2 kids (+1 unh-egg) for SI: ① Red LL Wt: 32.4 ② LA-Mv Wt: 35.6g

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2005 WaltoD Koenig 2006 2007 LODO (25Apr) Bleed again on ~ 2,9 May. 2 May 1545. Bleed the kids (sample #2) ① Red WT: 60.9g ② La-Mv wt: 58.9g 9 May 1645. Banded & bled the 2 kids ① led #4047: 73.9g ② La-Mv #4048: 74.1g 11 May 1030. Caught 83198 feeding and took blood for SI analysis. 1 Sept. Plenty of (old) stored acorns still here. 2006 3 May 1000. Cleaned out 2 starling nests in the last year's nest tree (tag 1076), including one in last year's nest hole (hole tag #902). Birds roosting here in a low knot hole. 5 May 600. Only managed to catch one (of 4!) birds- and that was the banded ♀ (3797). 17 May Starling back in last year's nest hole (#902) 31 May Just n cleaned out The starling nest a week ago or 80. I went up today and found it in OK shape, save for a couple of Oak leaves brought in by a mouse or some such. 2007 1 May 920. Bird flushed out of low (new) hole in Tree tag #1075. 1230 Not so young! 10-11 do (2 kids). Hole tag 497

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2007 2008 2009 WalnD Poems Melanerpes formicivorus LDDD HNNR 11 May 1100. Banded and bled the 2 kids. Stores? Oh yes. 28 May 900. job-4i(n)/DA dead below nest. Sad! He was fairly close to fledging, too. 22 JUNE 4 eggs 1440hrs (1) 24.9 x 19.7 (2) 25.2 x 19.1 (not (incubated) (3) already measured by ELW (as was (4)) cav# i317 Time: 1445. Plenty of stores here. 3 July 1130. Checked The hole: 3 kids, 4-5 do. 2008 27 June 1415. Bird in low hole of 1st tree (tree tag 1075; hole tag 1302): 5 eggs, fresh. Measured 2: (1) 23.9 x 17.8; (2) 24.0 x 19.3. 9 July 900. Checked nest: 3 kids, 3-4 do. Band ~26 July. 2009 9 April 1130. None in any holes, but plenty of stores here. 26 May 1240. Checked The hole (#1302): 2 kids, 4-5 do. Band ~12 June. 12 June 1130. Banded the 2 kids. STILL lots of stores. 17 June 2000. Watched roosting with Erin. 8"4363 came and left; 8"4218 then came and roosted in the nest (got a good look).

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2005 2006 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus Gator HNHR 14 Jan Ambushed this morning; got 2 birds in the low hole (83934, a 42K bird and a NOBA 8") but missed at least 1 bird roosting in the higher hole. Will have to try again. 1 Feb. Ambushed again, only getting 83934 in that upper hole. Maybe they're roosting in the other tree? 19 Apr Birds have been down around 4 in holes in the old sycamore snag toward 1500 regularly, so I went and checked The old hole (tagged 5806): empty but nice. 25 Apr 1400. Checked hole 5806: still empty. 26 Apr 1700. ! The snag containing hole #5806 fell (since yesterday, when I climbed it!). I checked the hole - Boone (dead) inside it. 4 May Put the hole up (still tagged 5806) in their other willow over by the Pump, fairly low (~15' up on a side limb). 14 June 1800. Driving up the lane I heard old babies in a cavity right at the road! Opened it (the hole is about to fall apart) and found 2 kids, now banded. Presumably this is Gator's nest? It's across from 1500, so it's got to be Gator or a different (new) group entirely. Sheesh! 8 Sept 600. Ambushed The willow hole (high one): only 83934. 19 June Took away the artificial hole (5806)

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2008 Walter D Koene Melanerpes formicivorus Gator 10 June 1030. Banded the 3 kids here. Stores? Don't know! Where do these birds store acorns? Cavity 889403 (willow). Tree not tagged; Eric tagged it #8697. It's the tree a bit down from the pump, next to the recruitment site. HNM

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2007 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus Lane HNAK 8 June 900. This group, which is located right on The lane at about 1300 (tree 4719), has 3 birds based on a roost watch a couple weeks ago when 1 bird roosted in a hole in The 4719 Valley oak and 2 in The next valley oak down. The latter hole in low and pretty marginal, but The high hole in the 4719 looks good and sometimes has a bird in it, so today I climbed it. The hole is empty and needs a bit more work, but could still be used. There is a storage limb up in tree 4719 also, but it appears to be empty.

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2004 2005 2006 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicarius 3 1500 HNHR (13 June) Nestling was fairly small (exactly how small was hard to say). But clearly failed not too long after Joey checked them. Stores? Need to take a look tomorrow. 14 June 1215. Checked: no stores, best I could tell. 24 August No stores. 11 December 700. Ambushed The traditional hole, getting 2 NOB A 9# (both adults) and 3633. 2005 18 April 1030. Bird in traditional hole (tag # 1327). 8 inc. eggs (EHD ~ 23 April). Measure) ① 24.9 x 19.7 ② 25.1 x 19.0 ③ 24.4 x 19.8 ④ 26.0 x 19.2 ⑤ 26.4 x 19.0 ⑥ 24.2 x 17.7 ⑦ 26.5 x 19.0 ⑧ 25.0 x 20.0. 24 April 1005. Hole totally empty! Yet another failure for the day. 9 May 1315. Bird in hole (1327) again. (2nd nest) 15 May 1700. 7 kids, ~4-5 do; no eggs. Band ~6/! 31 May 1100. Banded a 6led the 7 babies! Stores: definitely. 1 Sept Out of stores here! 2006 6 March Definitely have store, but not a lot. 9 May 940. Checked hole 1327: 6 eggs + 1 rount (7 total) Relatively fresh. 30 May 1600. Justyn already found the nest failed with

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2006 2007 Walt D Koenig Mclamerpis famicarum 150D HNNR (30 May) a starling nest on top of it, which he cleared out. Today I cleared out another starling nest with 4 eggs. These guys are a real problem this year. [Hole 1327] 9 June still stores here. 22 June Maggie found the new nest here, with ~15 do kids, in a new hole. Banded & bled all 3, even though they're a 6-7 young yet. Hole tagged #4048, in the main tree (high). 2007 18 March 740. Did a (temporary) removal here to relive the Hannon (1985) experiments. We ambushed last night at the old hole (where a starling was roosting - now deceased) and last year's new hole. I was able to pull out the 2 helper ♀♀ (4125 & 4127) plus the NOBA ♂; This morning when we returned we got 84259 in the net. At that point we released the helper ♀♀ and kept the 2 ♂. Will we get a power struggle or any serious indication of a replacement? The 1st issue, of course, is: Who's the NOBA ♂? (now 4312). The 2 possibilities are: another of the missed kids from SOSp in 2005 who is now here to join his brother (4259), or, a kid from a (missed) fall nest here at 150D. He does have 2Y-type

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2007 Waltair Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 5 1500 (18 March) features - worn remiges, sharp primaries - but his head sure looked more adultish. I just can't be sure. He looks more 24 than 34 but The 1st hypothesis is a whole lot more appealing than the 2nd (Presumably if it is the 2nd, the Z 88 are unrelated.) In any case, we released the 2 88 at about 0630 and now I'm here watching. Between 0800-0900 I'll keep track of all vocalizations. I've seen birds here but basically it's all quiet. If an intruder did come by, s/he left pretty quietly. I should mention that ?4025, who we did not catch, could have been in the hole with everyone else. I couldn't reach everywhere which is why we had to come back at dawn to get 84259 in the bag, 808. ? Reb / #4127. (2) ? M/D8-WM(W) #4025. (3) For-LA/M #4125. All here! 845. Power struggle going! Getting the 88 905. Good PS - ~10 birds here! Releasing the 88. 2 May 1100. Opened last year's hole: 1 fresh egg: (1) 24.9 x 20.0 Cavity 4048. 20 May 1215. Came to do a hatching check, but it would appear that they threw out or otherwise lost the 1st nest and have laid a 2nd: 7 fresh eggs! (1) 25.8 x 20.2 (2) 23.8 x 19.6 (3) 25.1 x 20.0 (4) 25.3 x 19.2 (5) 24.9 x 20.1 (6) 25.9 x 20.4 (7) 25.3 x 19.2. EHT now ~ 30 May.

18 March 0850~0900 Walks bouts ① ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| Kamt-cuts bouts ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| || Other (Garlicks) unites Chases 1 (SHOWING?) ||||| ||||| ||||| 815. Chasing a B! 816. A-B here! 8M? /Da? Maybe S4184 from LHay? 825. Activity picking up. 827. All quiet? 831. B here! Walks my. No chase? 832. Chase! 835. At least 10-5 birds here? 837. Activity! Chasing. 840. 4 birds here 841. 7 birds here! All just flew to Blue Oak 842. SNOBAY. 844. Basically a modest power struggle! 845. Leaving!

2007 Waltir Koenig 2008 2009 2010 1500 6 Melanerpes formicivorus HNNR 26 May 1030. Still 7 eggs; incubated 18 June 1430. Banded the 5 kids. Plent of stores still. 2008 9 April Counted stores here: Main tree: 2260 Tree 2: 500 2760. Not as many as I would have Thought, but the tree is not as full as some others (i.e. Plaque). 2009 7 June 1200 Banded the 5 kids (hole 4048 in tree [K179]). Lots of stores here! 2010 1 April 1630. Bird in high hole in main tree. 6 April 1000. Checked the hole (#4048); empty but in good shape. 8 May 1600. Bird in old (1975!) hole (tagged 8894-10): 8 fresh eggs! EHD 18 May.

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2005 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus 160D 14 January 800. Ambushed The artificial hole I put up here in December (after discovering, best I could tell that they were roosting in the lichen here!) and got 3 birds: A Noba 8, a Noba 4, and 4024, a (probable FY [now 2Y]) bird I caught at 1800 in December. Sheesh! No telling who's who. Lots of stores in this tree here; they've done well. 19 April 1545. Checked the artificial hole, which they've been in a few times: empty but in pretty good shape. Fair number of stores in This tree! 25 April 1330. 2 fresh eggs in artificial hole. ① 25.3 x 19.3 ② 25.6 x 18.7. 30 April 800. I came up here to take the eggs (after Neil did 2 inc watches, one yesterday morning) only to find The damn hole empty! What a posser! 17 May 1400. Bird in art. hole: 3 eggs, a few days inc. I Think; ① 25.7 x 19.1 ② 25.7 x 20.1 ③ 24.8 x 20.1. 24 May 1645. 3 hatchlings, ~1 do. 9 June 3 kids in hole; looking good. 11 June 900. Banded & bled the 3 kids. And they do have stores in this tree. 1 Sept. No stores left here. Apparently ran out this summer.

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2006 2007 2010 Walt W D Koenig Melanurpes formicivorus HWNHR 1600 19 March No stores here, best I can tell. 29 May 1530. Cleaned out a starling nest w/ young babies from the artificial hole. 9 June Hole OK - starling did not rebuild here after last time. 2007 29 April 1100. Starling in the nest hole. 5 eggs. Cleared. No sign of ACWOs. 20 May A bit of a starling nest but otherwise empty. 2010 April 1600. Starling flushed out of the artificial hole. 4 eggs. Cleared the hole out. 18 June 1300. The PATs found the nest here - in a small dead valley oak in the middle of the 15º canyon (6597) - 5' high! Banded The 2 kids + set an ambusher. 19 June 815. Trying to ambush. At least 3 birds here: ?NOBA, 8" NOBA, 8" red/red-LBlue #4654! Possibly 2 NOBA 99 here, but can't be sure. 115. Quitting. Good feeding, but none's entering the hole. 8" is a kid from Stromberg 2!

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2004 2005 2006 Walter Koeny Melanerpes formicarius 1800 HNR 11 December 700. An ambush over at the new hole in the live oak snag got 2 ♀♀: 1 The Bonnie ♀ from Bonnie & Clyde (not seen since June 2003) and a NOBA ♀ who I'm fairly sure (but not positive) was a FY bird. This suggests that the mother (Bonnie) formed a coalition and dispersed with her daughter (The NOBA); perhaps a first? In any case, presumably these are the breeder ♀♀ here now. 2005 27 April 1800. Having seen a bird in the old MLF hole (tag #5814) I checked it today: 4 fresh eggs! ① 28.0 × 19.5 ② 26.9 × 19.8 ③ 27.4 × 19.3 ④ 27.3 × 18.7. I'm guessing this may be 1800's nest since MLF2 (I think!) is nesting over toward 1500 a ways. But who knows? Both these clearly need watching, and soon. 30 April 815. Hole still has 4 eggs. 1 May Group is not 1800, it's [illegible]. MLF1 9 June Still stores but no sign of a nest here. Sept [illegible] Plenty of (old) stores here. 2006 6 March Stores: yes. 7 April 630. Ambushed the new hole just in from the old hole in the main granary, which had a single NOBA ♀, now #4212.

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2006 2007 2008 Walter Koenig Melanerpes fomiticivorus 2 1800 MNHR 9 May 915. Checked the new hole in the granary: 3 fresh eggs. Clutch complete? Bird has been in the hole the last 2 days. ① 23.8 x 20.1 ② 23.8 x 20.5 ③ 23.8 x 20.3 23 May 1800. 2 babies, ~7-8 jo, +1 unhatched egg (#1). Band ~ 5 June. Still stores here. 30 May 1230. Set up to catch one of the NOBAs. 1330. Got a NOBA ♀. Now 4216. AZH? 1600. Got a 2nd NOBA ♀. Now 4217. 2Y? 31 May 1000. Got a NOBA ♂ (Thanks to Lisa). Now #4218. Hole tagged #683. 4 June 1630. After 3 hours, I finally got 8311, who I put new bands on & released. I then banded & bled the 2 kids. 2007 28 May 1400. Banded & bled the 5 kids. Plenty of stores. County tag #683. Tree tag #1150. 2008 16 Apr 7 1730. Bird in hole 22 June 1445. Bird in hole: 3 eggs, fresh. ① 23.3 x 20.2 ② 23.4 x 19.7 ③ 23.0 x 20.0. This is the usual hole in the main granary (county tag 683.) 4 July 1330. Checked nest: 4 hatchlings, no eggs. Band ~ 24 July.

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2009 2010 Walter Koenig Melampes formicarius 1800 HNNR 17 April Plenty of stores here. 12 June ST57) plenty of stores. 2010 8 June 930. Here to get a 8 who's lost his color bands. 1040. Left. 1240. Back. 1300. 8 (red/yel) #3498 (?)?! 1310 8 DB-LP/LP-DB #4592. 1520. 8 red/yel ?? M ADD. ? /DB wh(n)? # [illegible] ? could have been 9#4590. 140D, 8 red/DB-wh(n) #4218. 1415, 8 red-Mv/yel ? LR band split; UR a new Y. 1420 8 DB wh(n)/M #4590. 1430. 8 " got him! He turned out to be 63498. 14 June 1500. Banded the 4 kids here including bird #5000! Amazing but true. Stores: Yes.

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2005 WalthD Yoeng Melanerpes formicivorus Middle long field 2 (toward 1500) HNHR 15 Jan Ambushed a new hole in the rotten limb this morning, getting 1 bird: #3923, a 3Y bird from Sch Hill Anney. Is she here with #3501? Seems unlikely, I'll have to try to find where the others are roosting here. There are stored acorns here. 22 Jan Ambushed the old MLF1 hole and got The NBOA♂ (now 84031) and The banded ♀, who isn't #3501 after all, but instead #3842, an old H-B kid! Probably not with #3923 anyway, I would guess. inv. thin dead limb 19 Apr 7 1400. Bird in new hole above where I ambushed on 15 Jan. (tree #1167, ♂ hole now tagged #907): 7 inc. eggs; ① 23.7×19.1 ②24.3×19.0 ③25.1×19.0 ④25.8×19.2 ⑤25.6×18.6 ⑥23.9 × 18.5 ⑦23.6×19.7. 24 Apr 7 1015. One of The cuts had fallen out! But - bird flew out when I called. Went up and checked: 3 hatchlings + 4 unhatched eggs. Today is the day. will have to check again to see how many hatch. Band ~ 15 May. 29 Apr 7 1000. 5 kids. No eggs, best I could tell. Band ~ 15 May. 8 May 1630. Ambusher all set; looking for The NBOA♂ here, if he exists. 1700.04(③) Or/wn #3461 1715. Caught The NBOA ♂! Now 4046.

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2005 2008 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Middle Long Field 2 (toward 1500) HNNR 15 May 1630. Banded + bled the 5 kids. ST71 stores around here also. 1 Sept No stores left here, best I can tell. 2008 24 May 1000. Eric found the nest here - up on the side of School Hill in a new hole! Banded the kids, who were ~16 do: 3 kids. Tree is #6645. HoJo tag #889419. 25 May 11:00 - Caught NOBA female feeding at nest #4571. AD89 MORNING BIRDABLE 2009 12 June 1400. Checked hole #5814 (MLFI's old hole) where birds have at least been roosting: empty. Not in great shape either (damp on the bottom) although it could be fixed up fairly easily.

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2505 Waltrid Koenig Melanopis fuscicrassus Middle Long Field I (toward LOLF) HNYR 27Apr) 4 eggs. See 1800 notes. 30Apr) Still 4 eggs. 9 May 1380. 4 kids, ~1-2 do. Banded ~29 May. 7May 1330. Bleed the 3 kids for SI: ① Darn 42.1g ② Blk-Org 40.9g ③ DBI-WH 37.4g Turns out the 4th kid was in there - extremely emaciated, however, weighing all of 8 gmr! He was almost dead, see 290ble him but I left him in there did not take blood from him. 24 May 1700. Bleed the (remaining) 3 kids: ① 71.7g ② 74.1g ③ 71.9g 31May 1345. Banded & bled the 3 kids: ① 73.4g ② 79.7g ③ 80.1g 1530. No trying for one of the adults (blood for SI). 1745. I gave up. Finally had a feed, but the bird didn't go in. 1June 415. Ambushed the nest and got 84031 for SI blood. 1Sept No stores left here, best I can tell.

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2003 Walter D Koewg 2004 2005 Melanerpes formicarons Lower long Field HNHR (27 April) infertile egg. 1 of the kids probably on the way out; others should make it. Banded ~14 May. 13 May 1645. Banded the 3 kids, Stores?, I believe so- 14 June 1215. Checked the hole: empty. 2004 3 May 1400. Bird in traditional hole! 1600. Checked hole: empty. Fixed it up a bit (tagged #1316). 26 May 1715. 9 in hole! Time to check it again. 27 May 900. Hole in nice shape but empty. 18 Dec. 700. Ambushed the traditional hole getting The 2 36 here (83229 and 83485) and the NOBA & (now 94027), Group back in business here! 2005 6 April Stores here; yes. None in the hole, though. 15 April Found a new hole in The main trunk! Bird in it twice. 1730. Opened it (now tagged #905): empty! I guess they're still working on it. 21 April 1600. Checked the (new) hole: still empty. 6 May 1400. And it's still empty, even though a bird was in it again today. (hole #905). 17 May 1430. Climbed to hole: 94027 on eggs! 5 of them, ~2 days mc. ① 27.5×18.4 ②28.8×18.5 ③27.6×18.6 ④ 28.3×18.0 ⑤ 28.2×18.5.

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2005 Walt D Koewing Melanerpes famicavus Lower Long Field HNHR 28 May 1130. Finally checked the hole for hatching: 3 kids, 4-5 to, + 2 unhatched & undeveloped eggs. Band ~ 6/13. 12 June 900. Banded & bled the 3 kids. Stores? Yes. The 2 unhatched eggs are still there as well. 8 Sept. No stores left down here. 2006 4 May Still some stores here. 23 May 1330. Bird in the old hole (#1316). Climbed up to it: as I sort of expected, it's not in great shape. I'm not sure it's unusable, but I think it would be a marginal hole if it were used. In any case, it's empty and would still need some work. 2007 19 April 900. Bird in hole (#905). Checked it: empty but close to being ready. 29 April No one in a hole. Stores? Yes once. 3 May 845. No one in hole. 4 July 1145. Finally found the nest here - in the big Live Oak at The road (tree tag #8415). 3 kids, ~ 13 days old. 12 July 1130. Banded the 3 kids here. Still plenty of stores.

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2008 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Long field HNHR [Apr] Counted stores to get an idea of granary size here: 1050, mostly in the dead sycamore trunk. 7 June 1500. Kid looking out of old nest hole !?! Flew out. A 2dd in There also. Flushed as we climbed up. What does this mean? Missed nest? We checked this hole dozens of times. Maybe Horsetail fledglings? Climbed up; hole empty but in OK shape. Set an ambush. Lots of stores here. 15 June Indications were that we perhaps did miss a nest here - presumably in The sycamore hole - so tonight I ambushed and nabbed 9 birds, including 84168, The 3 Bgg from MLF2 (!), and 5 NOBA fledglings! Figure that one out. Hole is tagged #905. 2010 8 April 1200. Opened the new hole v. high up in The main sycamore: empty. Now tagged #6898. It's a good 70-75' up There.

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2003 2005 2006 2007 Walt D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Horsetail H.N.H.R. 26 May 1100: Banded and bled the 3 kids here. Stores remaining? Yes indeed. 2005 15 Apr There are stores here! Clearly a group here after all. 4 May 1030 Found the hole; it's in a dipshut limb way up there with nothing above it. Bannner. Will require some imagination to get up to it. I think they still have eggs. 17 May 1545. Bird flushed from hole: babies, youngsters, calling. I'd give them another 7-10 days, then try to get up there 24 May 1230. With 4 people, 400' of rope, and a lot of craziness we got the 40' ladder straight up, allowing me to reach the hole and the 3 kids. Unfortunately, one (4101) had a broken leg (not clear how; maybe it was us) so I kept him, returning the other 2. They were ~14 days old or so. 8 Sept No (old) stores remaining here. 2006 15 May No stores here. 2007 29 Apr Stores: Yes. 2005 hole has fallen. 3 May 850, $ M/LG? #3789 in granary. None in any holes 4 July Still some stores here.

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2008 Walther Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Horsetail HNHR 4Apr7 Counted acorns here: 3050, not including the 400-500 stuffed in The WEBL box on the tree. (Box is completely full of acorns.) Birds may have been in The hole (#2) here as well. The tree is clearly a nice granary now! Acorns are stored all around and way up the trunk.

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2005 2006 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Dipsy HNHR 15 March 600. Succeeded in snatching success from the arms of defeat by getting the F in the low (old bluebird) hole here after ambushing at the old H-B hole! She is indeed #3463; bands were changed/faded a whole lot. I put new bands on her. A second bird (presumably the 8) was missed. Note that on 12 March, this hole contained one Aneides lugubris! 6 April There are stores in the tree here. 19 April 1220. Bird in low hole (old bluebird hole): empty but in good shape. 26 April 1700. Checked the hole again (tag #1307): still empty. 2 May 1600. Bird in hole (1307): 5 eggs, 1 a rount: ① 25.6 × 20.4 ② 24.4 × 19.6 ③ 25.2 × 20.3 ④ 25.7 × 19.9 ⑤ 19.4 × 15.3. EHD: 12 May. 14 May 1500. 4 kids, ~1-2 do, + The rount egg. Band ~ 2 June. 1 June 1200. Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores: Yes! Sept. A few (old) stores left here. 2006 6 March Some stores here, at least. 28 May 1500. Walked by the low hole here (tag 1307), where the birds had been roosting up to a couple of weeks ago (side Justin) only to have a starling fly out! I checked it: one egg. I cleared it all out. 30 May 430. Squeezed the F starling + again cleared out

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2006 2007 2008 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 2 Dipsy (30 May) hole 1307 here, where she had laid another egg. 3 June 1400. Checked last year's hole (the old horizontal H-B hole): had several bunches of old lichen in the bottom, but otherwise OK. Cleared out. 19 June Noone in any holes; no stores left. 2007 26 April 900. Still stores. Noone in any holes, though. 7 May 1230. Bird in hole #1307: 5 eggs (1 a runt), pretty fresh ① 24.3 x 19.8 ② 25.2 x 20.3 ③ 24.5 x 20.3 ④ 25.3 x 19.6 ⑤ 19.0 x 15.6. 18 May 1000. 2 kids, ~2 to, + 3 unhatched & infertile eggs (inc. The runt) 6 June 1000. Banded the 2 kids. Still stores here. 2008 11 May 1030. Checked nest (low hole, tagged #1307): 3 babies, just hatched recently, + 1 unhatched but developed egg. All 4 could hatch. Band 1 June. 4 July 1215. No bird in hole (#1307) but I checked it anyway: 3 eggs, incubated! ① 23.9 x 18.8 ② 23.5 x 19.4 ③ 24.5 x 19.5 (this one not developing). EHD anytime; let's say 7 July. 9 July 1000. 2 babies, ~2 to, + Tabbed egg (#3). Band ~ 28 July.

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2009 2010 Wolfgang Poenic Melanerpes famicerosus Dizzy MNKR 23 May 1530. Several birds in the old H-B hole: checked it and it's in good shape but empty. More interesting: on the ground, just sitting there was the body of 4M/DB with 4603; she had clearly been dead for a while, but not so long that she no longer smells! 4 June 1400. 2nd time around here there was a bird in the old H-B hole again. I should check it in a couple more days for sure. 6 June 1130. Checked the old H-B hole (not tagged yet): 4 eggs. Didn't check for incubation. 7 June 1800. Shill 4 eggs, fairly fresh. EHD~16 June Still need to tag this hole. 17 June 1415. 4 kids, ~2 days old (Band ~6 July). Hole now tagged (finally) #5611. 2010 2 May 1300. Checked hole 1307 (the low one): 1 (cold) egg, marked #1 in red.

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2005 2006 2007 Walton D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Hay-Bloom HNNR 6 April Plenty of stores here. 14 April Starling in the high traditional hole. 21 May Opened a hole I found last night where at least one bird really insisted on roosting - in a knot on the 1st big valley oak on Hastings, it was empty; I cleaned it out of some old bat droppings and miscellaneous junk, so it's certainly usable at this point. 1 Sept. Granary empty! Ran through then stores. 2006 24 March No stores (!) Or if there are any, very few. 19 June Put an artificial hole up here (#5806) - in one of the small oaks near the top above the old nest tree a bit over toward Low Hay. (tree tagged #6331). 2007 26 April Some stores still here - not a lot, however. 27 May Pretty well out of stores. 3 June 830. Found a nice new hole in the HNHR old nest tree (tagged #6324), but it's empty. Has remains of a partially-built EUST nest; cleared it out. If they end up resting up here, it should be here!

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2008 2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Hay-Blem KINHR 2 May 930. Checked the nest: 7 eggs, fresh. Hole is tagged (89...?) and in The old nest tree in The limb with The old hole facing Soto Springs 2009 18 May 1030. Opened last year's hole (one of Eric's tags): 1 Fresh egg! Marked #1. 7 June 1400. Checked the nest: 2 kids, ~4 do, +4 unhatched but developed eggs. Band~25 June Kind of looks like they're out of acorns! 19 June 2005. Scared 2 birds out of The hole after which 3 Red/LB-WH #4302 came back and roosted. 25 June 1045. Banded the 1 surviving kid; a second dead one in The nest removed (kid been dead a day or two at least). 2010 3 April Hole 5806 (artificial) on tree #6331: 4 starling eggs. Hole cleared out and moved down to SOSP! 19 June 1430. Checked The old hole (889101) when Caroline reported feeding only to find 2 bandable kids! Theo 6324 (K210). Stores: Yes, some.

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2008 2009 Waltford Keeney Melanopipes famiciivorus Mike HNHR 30 April This group has taken over the lower part of Hay-Bloom, including their old nest tree. They were roosting in the old (high) hole this winter, but now the cut has fallen out and there's a starling in it. More surprisingly, however, is that they have a granary - the next tree down! It has a fair number of stores still- certainly a few hundred! 12 May 1230. Opened the (new) hole in the Blue Oak- down toward the cabin: 7 fresh eggs! Measured one: 26.7 x 19.8. Hole tagged 8610. Tree not tagged, so I tagged it #8609. 6 June 1500. Trying for the NOBA & here. ①♀ M/Dgreen [4380?] 9 for sure ②♂ Lwd/Light #4288. ③♂ Yel/ Da M /LG-or #4481 finally 11 June 1700. After 4 hrs all I saw was #4380 - no sign of a NOBA (or anyone else, really). 14 June 930. Banded the 4 kids here. 8 stores? Yes. 2009 23 May 1315. Bord in (new) low hole in VD tree #1572: opened it: 6 eggs fresh. Hole now tagged #8618. 4 June 1330. Cheeked the nest: 6 hatchlings + 2 developed eggs (!) Clearly they could hatch also. LED apparently 24 May. 7 June 1315. Checked the nest: still 6 kids, 1 egg. Presumably 7 hatched. Band ~ 25 June.

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2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanopus f. amiterrony Mike HNHR 25 June 1000. Banded the 6 kids here! They do have stores, although not a lot. 2010 2 May 1300. Checked the low (2009) hole (#8618): 4 eggs, fresh. Marked 1-4 in red. 15 May 1230. Checked nest: 4 kids, 2-3 do. No eggs. Band ~ 2 June. 27 May 845. Set up to get The putative NOBA here. 920. 84380 1010, 84481 1045. 8 NOBA - shiny Broke! 28 May 950. Back to try again. 1018. 84380, 84481 1120. 84480. 1210. Got him, finally! 1 June 900. Banded The 3 kids here. Stores: Yes.

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2003 WaltrD Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Soto Springs HNHR 14June 730. 4 kids, 4 do. Banded ~ 30 June. Set up ambusher. 20 June 1700. Caught The NOBA ♀ feeding at the rest (banded #3911). Should all be banded wow! Nest hole tagged #5816. 27June 645. Banded & bled The 4 kids. Stores? Don't know. Need to look around for a granary here. Joey found some - down next to The old nest tree, and They do have some stores left! 29 Sept Not only is there a granary here (just up toward HNHR from their original nest tree) but it has stores in it! 2004 24 August No stores here, but The birds are active. 2005 6 April Stores here aplenty. None in any holes. 20 May I'm not sure about a nest. But a starling way in their old (2003) nest hole this evening. 26 May 1700. Watched up here a 6.7. Saw 2 birds (♂, ♀, both banded) but no obvious nest. Could be here, though. There are certainly stores. 1 Sept. A NOBA ♂ (injw?) in the granary, which has a few old and a few new, green acorns stored in it.

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2006 Weldford Poening Melanerpes formicivorus Seto Springs HNNR 24 March Still some stores here. Going to try ambushing the hole which I finally found last night. 1715. Turns out it's a crap hole in a blue oak with no bottom. So I cut it off! They have to do better than that! 30 May 430. Yet a 4th straight zero in my attempts to ambush up here. 7 June 1900. Finally, on the 5th try, I got 4 birds here - losing a 5th who zipped out of the (old) hole as I pulled the string. 3 were NOBAs - presumably the kids from last year - plus 83483. With luck, they may all be banded here again. 2007 1 June 1300. Finally found the nest here, in a new hole in the face of the large broken limb. Hole now tagged #250. 6 kids, ~2 do, + 1 unhatched (but pipped) egg [23.8 x 19.3]. Band ~ 20 June. 20 June 1300. Banded the 3 kids here. Still stores. 2008 2 May 1000. Opened the (new) hole in tree 7741 (w nestbox 322): empty! But ready. (One bird roosted here last night, I believe.) 8 May New hole still empty - but birds in the vicinity. 12 May Still empty! Maybe not it after all?

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2008 2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Seto Springs H.WKE 22 May 1600. Opened the hole in the blue oak just above the spring: 5 kids, 6-7 do, + 1 egg (24.0 x 19.9). Band ~6 June. Hole not tagged. 6 June 1500. Banded the 5 kids. No tag on the hole! Still stores here- 2009 18 May 1115. None in a hole, but still stores. 6 June Still stores. 22 June 1300. At least 4 birds here, sapzucking in the forest up toward LHay. 2010 2 May 1445. Bird in new hole over by itself (tree#7741). 15 May 1245. Checked hatching here & set an ambush. Unfortunately, by the time I got back to write I'd forgotten whether there were 3 or 4 babies- I think 3 - plus 2 unhatched eggs. They are 2-3 do, so band on 2 June. 27 May 110. Set up to get the ♀NOBA. 1145. Raining! 28 May 1250. Trying again. 1415. Got a NOBA ♂! 1440. Got the ♀! 1 June 930. Banded the 4 kids here. Stores? Yes.

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2005 Wolter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Haystack HNHR 14 April 1100. Bird in traditional hole in middle of granary: 11 eggs (1 a runt)! Lots of stores. Eggs several days incubated, at least. EHD 21 Apr. Apparently new 99 here. 26 April 1645. Hole totally empty! However, on the way here, ~10' from the tree, are some egg shells that I think are ACWDs, so I suspect they hatched at any rate. Bummer. 2 May 1630. Today, 6 days later, There are 13 eggs in the hole (1 a runt)! Apparently there are 3 99 here! I didn't even touch them this time. 14 May 1445. Hole empty once again. Must be tough with this many 99! <No runts 21 May 1000. Checked the hole: 11 fresh eggs!! Try, try again! 1 June 1315. Checked nest (bird in hole fronte): 13 eggs! Set an ambush. 5 June 1545. Chilled nest: 6 kids, 2-3 do, + 6 unhatched eggs. Band ~23 June. 12 June 945. Came up to try and get one of the 99. When I checked the nest, a 8 was brooding the kids. I picked him up to see who he was (8 LB-DA/M #3223) and put him back, 1045. 9 LP-BLK #400S fed. Is she The 3rd (laying) 9? 1100. Caught 2 NOBA 99 at once! Nope! Only 1 NOBA 9 + 94005. On well.

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2005 Waltrid Poenig Melanerpes formicivorus 2 2006 2007 2008 2009 Lower Haystack HNHR: 14 June FSD. Back for what I assume is a 2nd NOBA 9. 930. Got her. This is all? 22 June 1300. Banded & bled the 5 kids. Lots of stores here. 1 Sept Plenty of stores left here. 2006 1 May 1430. Went up to fix the old hole and found 1 fresh egg in it! Marked it #1. 6 May 1615 9 eggs! LED ~ 5 May EHD ~ 16 May 14 May Still 9 eggs. 6 June 1330 Banded and bled the 5 kids here. Stores? You betcha. 2007 25 April 915. 8 eggs, incubated! In traditional hole, now tagged #213. Lots of stores, 1 May 830. 6 kids, 2-3 do, +1 unhatched egg. 18 May 1100. Banded & bled the 5 kids. Lots of stores. 11 June Hole empty. 2008 16 April 1730. Bird in hole: 8 eggs! 2009 18 May 1045. Checked the (usual) hole: empty. 23 May 1600. Bird working on new hole (low) in shag granary: opened it - empty but in good shape.

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2009 2010 WultrD Koeray Mcclaneper famicinoms 3 Low Hay HUNHE 4 June 1340. Bird in The traditional hole (tag#213 in tree K225): empty but in good shape. Plenty of stores, of course. 6 June 1100. Checked both hole 213 and the one I opened over in The snag (untagged): both empty. 11 June Hole 213 still empty. 17 June Hole 213 still empty. 2010 2 May 1400. Put a new lid on hole #213, which has 5 fresh eggs in it (marked 1-5 in red). 16 May 1000. 2 kids, 2-3 do, + 1 unhatched (but developed) egg. Band ~ 2 June. 1 June 1000. Banded The 2 kids here. Lots of story 3 June 2000. Nobody came to The nest to roost tonight

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2007 2008 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus SOHA - Southern Haystack HNNR 26 April Lots of stores here, no sign of birds. 6 June Sh! (stores; sh!) no sign of a nest. 9 June 1000. After 3 straight evenings roost- watching up here I found The nest - it's way over across the canyon on the Warner side of Far Tortuga! Came up this morning to open the hole, which had 3 kids ~23-24 days old. Now set up in case it's not too late to ambush one of the adults. Banded & Gled the 3 kids. 1015. 9 NOBA here. 8 is: 8 wh/8g/white. Both scared to go in the hole, unfortunately. 1040. ! There are 2 NOBA 9F here. Still scared to go back in the hole. 1115. Got one of the 9F! Now 4421. 10 June 900. Got The 2nd NOBA 9F! Hopefully That's The lot of Them. Tree is tagged #8404 (by me); hole is tagged #682. 2008 30 April 1030. Bird in artificial hole: 5 eggs, not inc. Old cavity (#682) has fallen, by the way. 8 May 1000. Checked nest: 3 kids, ~3-4 do, + 1 unhatched egg (measurements: 25.2 x 19.5). Band ~ 25 May. 22 June Plenty of stores here. 4 July 1800. Went up to the hole, flushing jica1m Put him back up in the hole - not quite ready to fly yet.

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2009 2010 Walt & D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Southern Haystack HNNR 18 May 1100. Checked hole #8613 (tree 8404): empty. 23 May 1600. Checked the artificial hole: empty & cleared out (no wood chips). Plenty of stores here, however. 11 June 1020. None in the artificial hole. Plenty of stores. 2010 2 May 1400. Still stores here. Birds over on far side over across the canyon. Hole 682 on the ground (I believe it fell some time ago). 8 May 1230. Checked the artificial cavity: a mouse nest with lots of lichen and acorn pieces; cleared out. None in any other holes. Lots of stores. 16 May 1030. Opened the new hole just down from the granary, now tagged #4342 (in a big BO Valley Oak (tagged 7388): 4 kids, 8-9 do (no eggs). Band ~ 29 Mar. 29 May 1300. Banded the 4 kids here. Plenty of stores still.

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2002 2003 2004 2005 WaltorD Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Blomone UNDER 24 May 900. Checked nest, ready to band kids: I recently deck chick, covered by some initial starting nest material'. Chick could have died yesterday or even last night(!) Still stores here, Back of old hole (1122) had fallen off, but- we fixed it; it's otherwise in good shape 3 June 830. Still stores; noone in any holes. 9 June 1545. 2 birds in new hole out on a limb in the granary. No sounds, so perhaps eggs? 14 June 1345. Noone in any holes this time. 21 June 1600. Bird in the new hole again. Guess I'll have to open it after all. Starling babies in the 1st nest hole. 25 June 700. Opened the new hole in the granary where the birds have been hanging out: still working on it. I also cleared out the 1st nest hole, which by now had 4 old starling chicks. 2003 7 April Stores here. 5 May Starlings in the old nest hole (not the one they used last year - the one out on the limb). 2005 16 May 1400. Bird in a new hole in The granary. 17 May 1730. Opened the hole (now tagged #917): 4 fresh eggs. Stores still plenty here. 8 June Cuts fell out! Nest empty! Bummer stores here.

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2005 Walter D Koening 2006 2007 Melanerpes formicivorus Blonone HNHR 9 June Hole nailed back together. 29 June What looked unmistakably like a fledgling just emerged from the an (old) hole above the one they were using in May. But how? They had fresh eggs on 17 May. If My cut fell out on 18 May, and it took them a week to renest, they'd have a new clutch on 28 May That would have hatched on or about 9 June and would now be 20 days old. I don't get how I could have missed a nest entirely here. Weird. Maybe the 17 May nest was a 2nd nest and this kid is from an earlier (missed) nest? That could be it, I guess. 2006 17 May Whole limb with 2005 holes fell over winter. Activity here, but none in any holes. 7 June 1700. Opened the new hole, high in the main trunk & facing back-toward Hastings: 3 babies, ~1-2 do, + 2 unhatched eggs, 1 a nut. Measurements of The non-run: 23.6 x 19.8 mm. Hole now tagged #500. Plenty of stores remaining. Band ~26 June 23 June Banded & bled the 3 kids here. Still stores. 2007 10 May 900 Bird in (new) hole in granary. Nest a rope 11 May 1000. Opened the hole: 4 eggs, close to hatching. ① 24.8 x 20.3 ② 24.2 x 19.1 ③ 23.9 x 19.4 ④ 22.3 x 19.8.8.

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2007 2008 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes famicularis Blowdown HNHR 31 May 1400. Banded & blet The 3 kids. Plenty of stores. The hole - in a limb that's cracking open - 12 June 1800. Put The cut - which had fallen out - back in; 1 kid fledged as I did so. Limb is definitely not going to last too long - there's a big crack in it. 2008 29 April 1000. Bird in (new) hole high up in The granary. 1100. Opened hole: empty. In good shape, though. 12 May 1015. Peeped The hole (now tagged #8612; tree is #6534): 4 eggs (all normal). 3 June 1330. Went up to band the nest: 2 kids, both dead, ~14 do. One was literally headless, while The other's head was eaten in the back. An owl? Rat? In any case, lots of stores here. 14 June 1021. Bird in same hole. 4 eggs (look fresh) #8612 8 July 1600. Banded The 3 kids. Plenty of stores still. 2010 6 May Hole 8612 looks like it's a Starling nest (possibly fledged already). Starlings all over this tree.

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2002 Waldo D Koering 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Bleutlirce Melanerpes fami civorus HINHR 9 May 1400. Bird in @2ap hole in traditional tree: 4 incubated eggs (band ~ 2 June ±). Odd thing: there was a pristine egg, almost certainly an ACWO egg, in some dead vegetation directly below the nest, as if it had fallen (or been tossed). 3 June 900. Banded the 1 kid! (#3H1). Still stores here. 2003 5 May 1730. Still stores here. Bird in The traditional hole: 2 eggs, fresh. (I don't think There were others, but it was hard to reach so I'm not positive.) Measured them: ① 24.7 × 18.9 ② 24.7 × 18.3. 29 May 1030. Checked nest: empty. Failed, I fear. S#71 acorns here. 19 June 1120. None in any of the holes. 2004 4 May No stores here. 2005 16 May 1345. Bird in one of The old holes (as used in 2003) 17 May 1800. 4 inc eggs here. Band ~ 6/10. 8 June 1630. Banded # 616d the 3 kids here. Stores: Yes. 2006 17 May 7015. Bird in traditional old hole: 4 fresh eggs - 14 June 900. Came to band, but hole empty - failed. 2007 7 May Bird in The same old hole. Flushed; no sounds,

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2007 Walter D Koens Melanerpes formicivorus Blountree HNNR 12 May 930. Opened the (same old) hole here with a new cut. Hole now (finally) tagged: #499. 4 eggs, incubated: ① 24.8 × 19.2 ② 25.0 × 19.2 ③ 23.2 × 19.0 ④ 24.1 × 19.5. 31 May 1500. Banded & bled the 1 kid here. They do still have a few stones. 22 June 1400. Adult in the hole: checked it: empty. 2008 12 May 1030. Bird in usual hole (tag #499): 4 eggs, maybe a couple days old. 3 June 1400. Banded the 4 kids, who are only ~12 days old or so ☐ based on weight: 80 ELED = 11 May, Hole 499, tree #8236, 2009 18 May 1200. Bird in hole 499: 5 eggs, incubated (1a run) Band ~9 June. 11 June 1130. Banded the 3 kids here. 2010 6 May 1015. Bird in hole 499: 4 eggs, only 1 of which seems to have developed. EHD 5/19; band by 5/30. 28 May 1730. Banded the 1 kid.

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2003 2004 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Gazebo HNNR 5 May 1730. Bird in traditional hole: 4 eggs, incubated. EHD ~ 10 May; band ~ 31 May. 25 May 900. Banded & bled the 3 kids. 19 June 1110. Bird in that other nest hole near the central area that I fixed up a couple of years ago. I flushed him and didn't hear anything, so they probably still have eggs. Will need the 20' ext. ladder. 27 June 600. Babies ~3-4 to. Band before 14 June. 7 July 500. Banded & bled the 3 kids here. 8 stores? Oh yes. 2004 24 May No stores left here, best I can tell. Also still no sign of a nest.

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2003 2004 2005 2007 Waltraud Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 5 LARS HNHR 29 May 1020. Bird in 1st nest hole; probably 2nd nest. 3 June 615. Checked hole (also last year's hole): both empty. Hole over in granary has lots of acorn pieces in it; not usable as B but could be rehabilitated. 19 June 1115. None in any of the holes. 2004 4 May Bird in vicinity of nest tree. 25 Sept Bird in hole here, but when I checked it it was empty. 2005 13 Apr 1545. Bird in the old hole. 14 Apr 1130. Opened the hole (finally tagged #901): empty. 25 Apr 1500. Checked the hole (#901): 4 incubated eggs. ① 28.0 x 21.0 ② 26.2 x 20.9 ③ 26.9 x 20.9 ④ 27.1 x 20.9. EHD ~ 29 Apr 7; banded 20 May. 2 May 1615. Babies in the nest. 16 May 1345. Banded & bled the 4 kids here. 2007 10 May 1000. Plenty of stores here. Also a bird in a new hole a bit up toward Gazebo (small blue oak). Opened: 2 kids, ~12 do, + 1 developed but unhatched egg (24.4 x 19.2). 11 May Set ambush. Hole now tagged #697. 18 May Banded & bled the 2 kids.

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2008 2009 2010 Walter D Koerner Melanerpes formicivorus LARB HWHK 3 June 1500. Birds in the easy hole from last year (hole tagged 697; next to road in blue oak). 5 kids, ~14 days old. We banded them. Presumably this is LARB, which has stores. 9 July 1030. Hole 697 empty. 2009 18 May 1145. Opened hole #697: 5 kids, ~14 do! 27 May 800. Banded the 5 kids: 4729-4733. 2010 6 May 1045. Bird flashed from new hole in the VO across the fence from the granary (free 874). Babies (youngish) inside, I'm pretty sure. Need a short ladder to get it. Also checked hole 697: no real bottom anymore, although it could (maybe) get fixed up somehow. But they've dug it way down so a stick falls through it.

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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.

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2005 WaltrD Poenig Melanerpes formicivorus MPHF HNHR 11Apr 1230. Bird in hole (climbable hole): 8 eggs, incubated, and all normal EHD: 15Apr 18Apr 1130. Checked the hole: 2 kids ~2do, perhaps +5 unhatched eggs (!) At least 2 of these didn't look developed, but I suspect now will hatch at this point Est N hatching: 3. Band ~6 May. 24Apr 1800. Took blood from the 2 kids for stable isotopes: ① Orange LL Wt: 42.1g. ② NB Wt: 27.4g Take again on 1,8 May. 1May 1400. Took blood sample #2 forgot to label! ① Or 78.2g ② 57.8g Bring tape and glue next week. 8May 1500. Banded & bled the 2 kids ① Or #4044 90.8g ② #4045 75.7g This was after trying to nab an adult, but having no one go in for 1½ hrs. 9May 1600. Finally caught an adult at the nest to go along with the kids: it was 4020, a fall kid, who is almost done molting to a ♀. Note: weather is rainy + cool today, in case that makes a difference! 6Sept Lots of old stores here.

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2005 2006 2007 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus MPHF MNMB 15 Sept. 700. Ambushed 2 holes, getting a total of 8 birds, including a AO^NOBA and a j NOBA - apparently I missed a 2nd nest here also??! 2006 4 May Good number of stores still here. 8 June 1430. Bird in the recently-used hole in the granary, at last. 9 June 1030. Checked the hole (tagged #5812): 4 eggs, incubated: ① 23.4 × 19.2 ② 23.8 × 19.9 ③ 24.1 × 20.1 ④ 23.7 × 19.3. Could watch soon ~ say ~ 12 June. 15 June 1230. 2 babies, ~2 to, + 1 unhatched egg. Band ~ 4 July. Still plenty of stores here. 2 July 930. Banded & bled the 2 kids here. 2007 26 April 1200. Bird in the old old hole in the traditional tree. Needs to be reopened! lots of stores. 1330. Opened the hole: in good shape but empty 3 May 715. Bird in hole; now tagged #387. This is an old hole used a lot back in the 1990s (for several yrs) 4 eggs: ① 24.2 × 20.5 ② 20.3 × 20.7 ③ 20.6 × 20.6 ④ 24.1 × 19.9. easiest! 13 May 1500. Now 5 eggs! The prior 4 plus ⑤ 23.7 × 19.8 Should hatch 15 May. LED 5 May.

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2008 Waltor D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus MPHF HNHR 8 May 1045. Checked nest (old hole, tagged #387): 1 baby 2-3 do + 4 unhatched + undeveloped eggs (#1,3,4+5). Band ~26 May. 26 May 1030. Banded the single kid here. Plenty of stores. 13 June 1500. None in a hole; note: The upper limb where they nested numerous times has fallen (not this year's nest tree - in UPF's granary). Still lots of stores.

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2005 2006 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 42K HNIKE 1 May 1500. Bird in (usual) hole (tagged #1349): 4 inc. eggs. ① 26.2x19.1 ② 28.9x18.6 ③ 28.3x18.8 ④ 26.0x18.1 Stores here: yes. EHD ~ 6 May. 9 May 1400. 3 kids ~ 3 do, + 1 unhatched and undeveloped eggs. Band ~ 5727. 15 May 1430. Bled the 3 kids for SI: ① DiBlue-Orig 45.5g ② Black 42.3g ③ Larn 34.8g 22 May 1515. Bleed the kids for SI: ① 78.9g ② 72.8g ③ 61.8g 29 May 1200. Finally caught an adult ♂ 3675 (the helper). Banded & bled the 3 kids. ① 77.8g ② 74.1g ③ 70.9g 6 Sept. Still a fair number of old stored acorns, plus a couple new ones. 2006 4 May A few stores here, but definitely not lots. 8 June 1510. Although there have been birds here at times in the spring, there seems to be nada going on now. I watched for 1/2 hr from way up on the hill and saw zip. There are still stored acorns here, however, so presumably they're somewhere! 1515. Then, as I come down, there's a ♀ over by the road. 26 June Hmm. Turns out the stick I put in The

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2006 2007 2008 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes fuscicollis 42K HWR (26 June) hole here to block the knothole (2nd) entrance had not fallen out - it had fallen in, thus blocking the hole itself to a significant extent? So this is why they weren't in here this spring. Is it why they failed to nest altogether? I moved the stick out of the way and cleared out the hole, which was full of miscellaneous lichen, wood pieces, etc. I wonder how long it will take them to discover this and come back? 2007 26 April Cleaned out hole 1349, which had a mouse nest in it. It was partly blocked up again. 13 May 1550. Opened the new hole in the live oak next to (and facing) the road that the birds roosted in last night: in good shape but empty. 24 June 1408. Caught the NOBA & here. Only saw the ♂ (3675) otherwise. Nesting in their old traditional hole, by the way (#1349) 29 June 1030. Banded + bled the 3 kids. Still stays here. 2008 23 June 1515. Checked nest: inside of cut had fallen in! A broken egg shell inside, but nothing else. I fixed the cavity. Stares? Yes.

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Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Stromberg HNHR 6 January 730. Ambushed here, getting 1 bird (8'2802). Very likely the only bird here. (Put new color- bands on him.) 5 May 1600. Bird in hole (tag 5558). Empty; bottom has a hole in it going down to the lower hole (Which is in good shape). I patched it as best I could. 24 Aug Saw what I'd call 1 stored acorn here. Basically they're out. 2005 21 April 1700. Went up to the holes: #5558 had 2 old starling babies, while #1148 (the lowest one) had an unused grass nest in it. I cleaned them both out. There are birds & some stores here. 2007 9 Jan 1900. Stores + 2 birds here. Ambushed - got a NOBA 8' + 9' (now 4306 & 4307). Have been here since fall at least. 12 May 1630. Opened new hole (in Spearmore closer to driveway) but not quite done yet! 15 May 1100. Bird in hole. 28 June 1000. Banded the 3 kids in this group. Best I can tell, there are no stores left here!

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2008 Walter D Koenny Melanerpes familiaris Stramberg 2008 13 May 1400, 3 kids (1 is aruit) 8-9 days old Tagged cavity 8611 on tree 4410; opened hole Hole was up at top of tree! Band ~25 May. 20 May 1530. Caught + banded The Bg here. Then went ahead and banded The 3 kids (1a rent). Stores?

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2005 2006 2007 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Westgate HNHR 19 Apr 1500. Went up to the high hole over on the NW side of the tree that I opened last summer: 4 inc. eggs, EHD ~ 23 Apr?, band ~ 14 May. 10 May 1300. Banded & bled The 2 kids. Stores: Yes. 26 July 900. I'm not sure, but I think I saw a NOBA fledgling here. Shit. Missed another 2nd nest! 8 Sept. Lots of (old) acorns still stored here. 2006 May Starling going into the (known) 2005 hole 2007 2 May 1100. New hole in Westgate main trunk: now Tagged #215: 5 eggs (1 a runt), fresh: ① 28.3 × 20.4 ② 24.2 × 19.8 ③ 19.5 × 16.0 ④ 24.6 × 19.1 ⑤ 23.9 × 19.2. 15 May 1115. 5 babies, just hatched, plus 2 unhatched eggs (still could hatch) and 1 dead egg (broken with developed embryo). Apparently still laying back on the 2nd Total clutch was 8, probably plus the runt for 9 total! Ambusher set. 22 May 1315. Got 63423 (more or less by mistake). 1500. Got her! Now #4342. 4 June 900. Banded #640d the 7 kids! Plenty of stores.

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2008 2009 2010 Waltu D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Westgate HNNR. May 1500. Chilled hatching here: 7 kids, ~3do. No eggs. Band ~19 May. 21 July 1000. Banded The 2 kids here in The 2nd nest. (Tree H1659; Hole 215). Stores: yes- lots. 2009 28 April 1500. Checked the hole (215): empty. Made a new cut. Plenty of stores here. 18 May 1400. Checked hole: 3 eggs. 26 May 1015. 3 kids, ~7do. 1 a runt who I doubt will make it, he's so small compared to The other 2 kids. Band ~9 June. 9 June 1315. Banded the 3 kids (The runt is still runtly but is hanging in there). 2010 10 June 1200. Checked hole 889088, where a second nest has 4 incubated eggs. EHD ~14 June. Stores: yep.

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2004 2005 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 6 Gate HNHR (29 Sept) first (training - thin & weak) set (in ...93). ...93 1st 2nd 3rd 11(new: 3) 3 21 21 (no old tip) actually, I broke it off! ...94 6 5 26 (no tips) 43 So! The thin, 1st set is replaced, at this late date, with the "adult" set! 2005 30 March Opened the new hole way up in the (new) limb: empty! 12 April Checked the hole: still empty. 18 April Still empty. But They're still working on it. 29 April Still noone in a hole. But, there's a Starling in the hole They've used the last couple of years, which explains why they had to make a new one. 1200. Bird in hole this time: checked it: still empty!! 6 May 1330. Bird in hole. Checked it: still empty, but- a lot deeper than it was last time! 12 May 1100. Now using the hole 2' above The other one! Opened it: 4 eggs, ~2 dinc. (EHD ~ 21 May). Measured one: 24.3 x 19.1 mm. 23 May 1615. 4 kids, young (~1 do). Band ~6/12 11 June Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores: definitely. 8 Sept. Quite a few old stored acorns here.

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2006 2007 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Gate H NHR 13 May 1000 bird in old (2004?) hole (tag #5554): 4 fresh eggs. ① 24.3 x 19.9 ② 24.3 x 20.6 ③ 25.4 x 19.7 ④ 23.8 x 20.0. 26 May 1000. 56abies, 1-2 do + 1 unhatched egg. Band ~ 14 June. Clutch size 6, I guess. That last egg could still hatch, although at this point I'd probably guess it won't. 2007 3 June Area taken over by Weate this year.

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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!

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2005 2006 Walter Poetry Melanerpes formicivorus Pipeline HNHR 26 March 600. An ambush of the main tree here yielded 83905 and the NOBA 9. 19 May 1000. Opened the new hole in the small square snag over by The creek (hole now tagged #918) that I discovered last night at roosting and found 3 inc. eggs! ①26.7×19.7 ②26.5×19.8 ③27.0×19.9. Could watch at any time. 22 May 1600. Still 3 eggs. 26 May 1400. Still 3 eggs. I think There's a problem, but I'll give them a few more days to be sure. 30 May 1600. Still 3 eggs. Developed, but then abandoned? I'm giving up, anyway, and The times I've been here none has been in the hole so I'm pretty sure They have as well. 8 Sept. Stores? I see none here. Out! 2006 23 May No stores left here, although the birds are interested in a new hole in a square over by the creek. 24 May 915. Opened the new hole - tagged #248. 4 eggs, see Justyn's notes for measurements. 4 June 1100. Checked the hole [Justyn]: 3 babies, ~4 do. No 4th egg, so presumably they all hatched. Bands ~ 21 June. 18 June 1200. Banded & bled the 2 kids. NO STORES left, best I can tell!

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2007 2008 2009 Walter D Koemp Melanerpes formicivorus Pipeline HNHR 6 Feb After getting reports of a NOBA here we ambushed the 2005 nest hole and got 5 (!) birds: 83905, 83907, 2 AZY 94, and one 2Y 8! Apparently 2 new 99 here; perhaps one of the kids from their natal group came with them? Seems unlikely but then again so does a fall nest that we would have to have missed. 9 May 1700. Checked The hole (#248): 6 kids, ~3ish days old! 27 May Banded + bled the 6 kids here. Stores: Yes. 28 Apr 0930 incubated. 5 eggs had to enlarge cut to get in ① 23.5x19.2 (opaque) ② 23.8x20.1 (③ 23.6x19.7 (④ 23.5x18.5 ⑤ 23.8x19.7 (translucent) (translucent) (opaque) (translucent) Hole #248, tree 4403 2006 6 May 1115. 2 kids, ~3 do, +3 unhatched eggs. Band ~ 25 May. 23 May 1000. Banded The 2 kids here. Stores? Yes. 2009 18 Apr Plenty of stores. 18 May 1500. Bond in (usual) hole. Still stores. 14 May 900. Checked The hole (#248): empty! Good shape, though. 25May 1500. Bond in the usual hole. 26 May 930. 4 eggs [a runt]; fresh. 28 June 1630. 1 kid, ~3 do, +2 unhatched +undeveloped eegs. Band ~ 26 June. 25June 1500. Banded the 1 kid. Stores? Yes.

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2010 Wnhtd Koeny Melanerpes familiaris Pipeline HNHR 7 May 1030. Bird in the usual hole. 8 May 900. Checked the hole (#248): 2 hatchlings + 2 unhatched (infertile) eggs. Band ~ 28 May. 28 May 800. Banded the 2 kids. Plenty of stores still here.

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2005 2006 2007 2008 Wolfeac Melanerpes formicivorus HNHR 18 Apr) 1000. Bird in (artificial) hole: 7 fresh eggs! 29 Apr) 1045. 6 kids, 2-3 do, + 1 unhatched (but developed) egg. Band ~ 17 May. 16 May 1600. Banded + bled The 5 kids. 8 Sept. No stores left up here. 2006 23 May No stores left. Birds? Yes, but none in any holes. 2007 26 Apr) Debbie reports seeing an egg being eaten here today! 3 May Still none in any of the holes. Stores? Yes. 12 May Finally found The new hole last night at noosting: it's in a live oak facing uphill over across The creek on the side of PO Hill'. In any case, it's now tagged #8402 and has 7 kids 10-11 do in it. 24 May 900. Caught The NOBTA at The nest. 1 June 900. Banded + bled the 7 kids. Still at least a few stores. 2008 6 May 1400. Eric found a new hole high in the VO gramany. Opened It: 3 babies, just hatching, + 4 eggs. (Clutch size 7.) Marked The hole #8606. 14 May 1330. 7 kids! All hatchub.

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2008 2009 Wolter Koene Melanerpes formicivorus Wolfpack HINKE 19 July 2:00. Ambush at the sycamore hole (tag?) yielded only 2 birds: 8'4077 + 1 of the kids (j4587). Where is everyone roosting here? 2009 18 May 1430. Checked the high hole up in the Valley Oak granary: empty. 26 May 1030. Checked it again (hole 8606): still empty. 6 June No stores here.

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2005 2006 Walter D Koewing Melanerpes formicivorus Road 1 HNHR (26 March) I'm also going to wipe the putative fall nest from the AWHATCH & AWREPRO files. It could, of course, have existed, but with only the one brief observation, it seems better to assure we didn't miss one after all, and that the NOBA fledgling the FAs saw was from somewhere else. 21 April 1630. Bird in (old) hole (tag #297): 5 inc. eggs. ① 25.9 × 19.4 ② 25.6 × 19.4 ③ 25.2 × 18.8 ④ 25.5 × 19.3 ⑤ 25.2 × 18.9. EHD ~ 26 Apr 7. 29 April 1115. Checked hole: 5 babies, 1-2 da. Band ~18 May. 12 May 1108. Here to catch the NOBA ♀ Lisa says is here. ②3441 is still here, so I guess it's that kid from last fall after all (?) that I discussed back in March. ② 8 yell/♀ #2543. 1240. Have to try again later. Nope! Got her! And she would seem to indeed be a 2Y Grid! Remeplate that fall nest, I guess! 16 May 1700. Banded & bled the 4 kids, plus took blood for SI (Matched w/ The 2Y bird caught on 12 May). 18 Sept. A few new, green acorns stored here but otherwise I think they must have run out this summer. 2006 23 May There are birds here, but stores are out best I can tell. 21 June Looks like hole 297, in which 25 birds were roosting last week, may be in the process of being taken over by Honey Bees!

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2007 2008 2009 WallnD Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Road 1 HNHR 21 May 745. Set up to catch the NOBA 8. 1500. Trying again. 1600. Finally got him. Now the only question is: is he the only one? 25 May Turns out there were 2 NOBA 8's here. The 1st I caught feeding a couple of days ago. The 2nd we had a hour or time with, so I had Eric ambush the nest this morning and bingo - we got him roosting in the nest; 84352. We then went ahead and banded the kids (4 of them). 2008 8 May 1115. Checked nest: 5 kids, 2-3 do, + 2 unhatched eggs: ① 23.7 x 18.5 (not developed) and ② 24.3 x 19.2 (developed but did not hatch). Band - 26 May. 26 May 1030. Banded the 5 kids. Stores: you betcha, Though not as many as one might think. 29 June 1430. One of the babies (#4574) got his leg caught in the cut and died. Blimmer. I took him down and checked the hole - none inside at least. 2009 13 May These guys could be out of stores; There sure aren't many. 16 June 1230. Banded the 3 kids here.

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2004 2005 2009 Waltin D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Finds HNR 18 April There are stores here. 31 May 9:00. Found the nest - ~8 to chicks. Banded & bled them, since it's way up in rotten sycamore. Hole now tagged #685 2009 6 June No stores here, best I can tell.

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2005 Waldir D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus MacFlat LWHR 18 Apr 7 1600. There are both stored acorns (!) and a bird in one of the old holes here !! Hole is The highest one in the gremany here - not the tree That's been used for several years. It has 4 eggs, perhaps 4-5 days incubated. Hole is now tagged #906. Eggs: ① 25.0 x 19.3 ② 24.6 x 19.1 ③ 25.2 x 19.2 ④ 24.3 x 18.8. Who are the birds here? 29 April 1130. Checked The nest: 3 kids, ~4 do, + 1 unhandled egg. Band ~ 16 May. The only bad news is That I kind of messed up one of The kids in reopening The hole. But he could make it - 10 week was I more or less took the skin off his neck. So I left him and hoped for the best. 3 May 1430. Nest failed: all 3 kids dead in nest. Actually, They were kind of buried down there, Which was weird. Could this have been a result of my screw-up? Possibly, although I believe Lisa had them feeding after 29 April. Oh well. I cleaned it out and left the ambusher. 28 June 1400. Found the nest here: it's very high in The large sycamore 15 m W of The road just N of old R3. Got up There to find a single kid, close to fledging. Unfortunately, this very possibly means I missed others, but at least I know the hole and have a string up to it! 10 Sept. No stores here, either in The burned tree or The traditional tree.

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2006 2007 Wall & Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus MacFlat H N H R 23 May No stores left here. Not much sign of anything or anyone so far, really. 26 May 1500. Bird in last year's (difficult) hole earlier, so I checked it: 3 eggs. Didn't take any out, but I suspect they're still laying. 31 May 1600. Still 3 eggs, best I can tell. Hole now tagged #693. EHD ~4 June (just a guess) 7 June 1600. Checked the nest: 3 kids, I'd say no more than 2 days old. Band ~28 June. 21 June ♂ bird is ♂ un-DB/DB #3405. ♀ NOBA. 25 June 800. For the 3rd time, I finally nailed the ♀NOBA at the nest, only to have her squeeze out past the bobber somehow. Sheesh. Two babies left, by the way, one of which is very close to death. 26 June 1500. Banded & bled the 2 kids, even though one is still very retarded. 29 June 500. Success! Found the roost hole (in the sycamore between the creek & P3's old tree) and ambushed, getting 3405 + 2 NOBA ♀s! Whoopee! Hopefully that's it, at last. 2007 3 May 1030. Checked hole: empty. (hole#693) 23 May 930. New hole ~2' below #693! Tagged (now) #689. Four kids ready to go! Banded & bled.

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2010 Wallin D Keuning Melanupes formicivorus MacFlat 7 May 1115. None in any holes but 2-3 birds busy chasing an intruder from the valley oak. With

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2005 2006 2007 Walks D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus School Hill HWR 19 Apr 1730. Opened the old hole here (#276): empty but in good shape. No one in any holes, however. 19 May 1200. Bird in #276 here, finally: but it's still empty! 27 May 1645. Watched for an hour or so. Saw 3 birds Together, but no indication they have a nest. Who's the 3rd bird? 12 June 1300. Plenty of stores here. No one in The old resthole, even though it's where they've been roosting both times I've watched up here. Seems like they really do not have a nest. 5 July 1945. Bird in The hole: checked it: very nice shape but still empty. (hole #276). 2006 1 May 1000. Bird in The traditional hole. 2 May 1415. Checked hole (tag #276): 7 freshish eggs. ① 25.8 × 20.1 ② 24.2 × 20.4 ③ 26.0 × 20.4 ④ 25.0 × 20.1 ⑤ 25.0 × 20.1 ⑥ 24.7 × 20.8 ⑦ [likely infertile] 27.5 × 18.2. ETD ~ 12 May. Turns out this is SH Annex! No School Hill this year, I guess! 2007 24 Apr 1845. No one in the usual hole (#276) but I opened it anyway to find 1 egg! ① 25.5 × 20.1 Presumably this is still S. Hill Annex.

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2007 Walter D Koenig 2009 Melanerpes formicivorus Sch.Hill Annex H.N.R. 14 May 830. 2 kids, 3-4 do, + 2 unhatched (and underdeveloped) eggs. Changed to SHN! 29 May Banded & bled the 2 kids here. Stores? You betcha. 10 July SHN from 3000+ of stores. 2009 10 July Still a good number of stores. There's a gopher snake sitting ½ in the hole down in The blue oak by the trail!

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2005 2006 2007 Walfird Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Sch.Hill Annex HNDER 19 Apr 1700. lots of stores, but none in any holes. 18 May 900. Finally found the (new) hole here, up the branch several feet from the old traditional hole in tree #4. It has youngsters kids and will need opening. 19 May 1145. Opened The hole (now tagged #716): 7 kids, ~10 do! Band ~30 May. Set up an ambush since There's probably a NOBA here. 21 May 1100. Finally! 8 la/M # (Not on list). 14. 16(5. Got a NOBA♀. Could very well be a 2nd, however! 25 May 1445. Back again for 2nd NOBA♀. 1520. Got her! 30 May 1500. Banded & bled the 6 kids. Stores? But of course. 8 Sept Both old (some) and newly stored acorns here. 2006 3 June 900. These guys are nesting in Schul Hill's typical hole down in tree 2 of The enclosure (hole tag 276). See SHill for more notes. Today we banded & bled the 6 kids here, Still no sign of (old) Schul Hill, SHAN has apparently taken over the whole area. Still acorns here (at 'SHill'). 2007 24 Apr Leg in the traditional SHill hole: Ø 25.5 x 20.1

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2007 2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Mclamerpes fomicivorus School Hill Annex HNHR 29 May For the last year or so we've been calling the birds at The lower end of The enclosure SH Anney, since They Moved down from The upper part of the enclosure. But we think (based on Josh) That They've budded, so we have to now make this group SHill Anney While the birds that moved (and have a nest in Tree 2) are School Hill. There is noony in any hole up here, but They do have some stores. 2009 24 May 1607. Bird in new Hole up highish in tree K245 at The top of The field. I didn't open it, but best I could tell from peeping it was empty but in good shape. Yes 26 May 1545. Opened The hole (now tagged #5562.) 5 incubated eggs! Clearly wasn't empty 2 days ago! 10 July 1230. Good number of stores still. 2010 29 March 2033. Ambushed the 2009 nest hole in The dying Valley Oak at The top of The hill here and got 7 birds (!!), inc. 2 NOBA 88 + 82861 - not scene since 2005!!

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2005 Walter D Koenig 2006 2007 Melanerpes formicivorus Sch. Hill West HNMK 1 May 1230. In my first trip up here this spring, I find stored acorns and a bird in the (old) hole! 4 fresh eggs. ① 26.8 × 19.0 ② 27.0×19.5 ③ 27.2 ×19.7 and ④ 25.7 × 19.0. This last egg was a bit cracked (probably by me); I discarded it and left the other in tact 3. 14 May 1600. Kids: Yes. Didn't open it to find out how many, however. Band ~ 1 June. 19 May 830. Dragged the 20' ladder up here and set the ambusher. 2 kids, ~7 do, + 1 developed but unbandaged egg. 21 May 1530. Bird in hole, even though the ambusher had fallen, so I pulled it and got a banded 8. 25 May 1600. Trying for the NOBA ③. 1710. Got her! 29 May Banded ④ 6(c) the 2 kids. 8 Sept. No old acorns here, but 100 or so nice fresh green ones! 2006 9 May 1345. No stores, but 4 birds here, quite interested in the tree. One was ⑧ or /or ?; at least one other was banded. None in the hole, however. 2007 14 May Looks pretty deserted here: no stores or birds. 29 May None in hole, but a bird did flush from the gramany!

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2009 Wald Koenig Melanerpes fumicervus School Hill West HNHR 16 May 1045. Bird in the old granary hole: Eric peeped it and saw 3 eggs (maybe more), Tree #5909.

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2007 Walther Koenig Melanurpes fornicavory R33 - Martin Road Scamore HNHR 10 March 1930. Ambushed this artificial cavity tonight and got 1 bird - an A6. There are apparently several others here as well.

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2008 2009 2010 Walter D Koenig Melanurpes famuernus ARFTOO HNHR 19 June 1715. Finally nabbed a NOBA 8 here after sitting around for 3 hours having nothing at all feed. 21 June 1715. After 3 more hours I got a 2nd 8? 23 June 930. 8 or /M at hole. M band has '97' in it? it may very well end in '978'. 7 seen well; 9 fairly well; The 8 is iffy. 1200. Banded The 1 kid here. (Prob. 4421) 2009 8 June 1130. Checked the nest: 4 eggs, undeveloped and almost certainly infertile! 2010 11 May 1130. 4 eggs, fresh, in hole 889421 (same old hole). EHD 5/21.

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2005 2006 2007 2009 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Black Oak HNHR 2 June 1200. A bird flew out from what appeared to be the old nest hole facing the turnaround, so I went up and checked: 4 (old) eggs, 1 a runt! However, best I could tell They were very old - too old, in fact. My bet is that They are way past the possibility of hatching. I Measured Them anyway: ① 25.5 × 19.3 ② 25.2 × 19.3 ③ 25.5 × 18.6 and ④ 19.3 × 14.9. 15 June 1500. Well, apparently Those eggs weren't so bad after all: There are now 2 kids in the nest, perhaps 7-8 do! 27 June 1100. Banded + bled the 2 kids. Stores: Yes. 6 Sept. No stores left here, best I can tell. 2006 6 March 87ared Acorns - Yes! Also - The old black oak nest tree (in between 1st black oak & the valley oak in the central area) has largely fallen over the winter. It still has (dead) leaves on it, so it must have been in Oct. or Nov. 12 May There are stores still here. 2007 26 August Basically out of stores here. 2009 20 April Bond in new hole high in main tree facing away from the road. 27 April 1430. Bond in hole 887405: 1 egg! (not marked)

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2009 2010 Waltm D Koening Melanerpes famicavorus Black Oak HNHR 10 June 1230. Got a string up to The new hole, where I could hear babies 11 July A few stores here - but not many. 2010 29 May 1040. Opened a new hole in the 1st black oak here (K12) (104): 2 dead babies, ~ 10 do. Hole tagged (now) #138; I removed The kids.

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2005 2006 2007 Walter D. Poerz Melanurpes fumuenus Phobo HNNR 15Apr) 1600. Opened both the holes in the black oak just to check - they're both empty, although they could be used fairly easily. 26April 1200. Bird in the lower hole: 4 fresh eggs, ① 23.4 × 19.9 ② 23.7 × 19.4 ③ 23.4 × 19.4 ④ 23.5 × 18.6. EFD ~ 6 May. Hole (now) tagged #911. 3May 1145. Checked hole: 1 hatchling + 3 eggs. Today is the day. Band ~ 23 May. 19May 1400. Finally checked the nest again: 4 healthy kids. 24May Banded & bled the 4 kids. Stores: yes, 6 Sept. No old stores here; only a couple new green acorns. 2006 12 May Still stores here. 1415. Nest! In lower Black Oak hole - tagged #911. 3 babies ~ 4 do! Band ~ 29 May. 29May 900. Banded and bled the 3 kids here - the first of the season! 20June Checked both holes (#911 & 5556). Empty, Usable. 2007 6May 1115. Whole limb w/ holes #911 & 5556 has fallen in the last 2 weeks! Opened hole #911 - it actually had 2 eggs (ACWO) in it, incubated. Bummer - what will they do now? 1 egg was smashed, the other buried & broken,

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2007 2009 2010 Walt D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Photo 12 June lots of stores here (nestlings ~23 so). 26 Aug. No stores left here (but new crop now available) 2009 11 July Stores here: yes - a fair number. 2010 13 May 1130. Opened The new hole I found them roosting in last night down below The old Black oak nest tree in tree KZO. It's empty but in nice shape! 3 June Still stores in The main grove here.

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2005 2006 2007 Waltor Poetry Melanerpes formicivorus Arnold I [illegible] 14 Apr 1700. 2 birds in the old high hole. Stored acorns up in there also. 15 Apr 1500. Went up to The hole (tag #284); had to deepen it, which took hours, but there are 6 incubated eggs here: ① 27.6 x 19.6 ② 25.8 x 18.3 ③ 26.7 x 19.5 ④ 25.0 x 18.7 ⑤ 27.6 x 18.8 ⑥ 25.1 x 19.2. 26 Apr 1000. Checked the nest: 4 kids and no eggs. Kids ~ 4-5 do. Band ~ 11 May. 10 May 1500. Banded & bled the 4 kids (I pretty runtly, though). Stores: Yes (even though the main granary is gone). 6 Sept. No stores left here, best I can tell. 2006 9 May 1430. Went up to The traditional hole (tag 284): 8 eggs, at least some incubation: ① 24.7 x 19.0 ② 22.4 x 17.4 ③ 24.0 x 18.0 ④ 27.5 x 19.2 ⑤ 26.9 x 20.7 ⑥ 24.6 x 18.1 ⑦ 24.7 x 20.0 ⑧ 24.5 x 18.9. 17 May 1300. Checked nest: 5 hatchlings (~1 do) + 3 eggs (#3,5,7), developed but don't seem like they'll hatch. Band ~ 6 June. 5 June 1100. Banded & bled the 4 kids (I quite behind and as yet unfeathered). Stores? Yes! 2007 24 Apr 1200. Opened the new hole here, now tagged #214, 5 eggs, incubated ① 23.5 x 18.3 ② 26.1 x 20.7 [hole in it] ③ 24.1 x 18.5 ④ 27.5 x 19.8 ⑤ 25.3 x 17.3 [not developing].

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2007 2008 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes fomcicivorus A! 5NTER 21 May 1300. Banded & bled the 4 kids. Still stores here. 36 Aug No stores left here. 2008 7 May 1400. Checked The nest: 4 kids, no eggs, 24-5 days old. 23 May 1180. Banded the 4 kids. Plenty of stores. 2009 2 June 7115. Bird in hole 284: checked it: empty (!) Plenty of stores here. 6 June 1420. Bird in hole 284 again. laying, I bet. 8 June 1180. Noone in the hole this time. 20 June 1445. Bird(s) in old nest hole #284! 13 July 1000. Checked both holes: both empty but in decent shape.

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus Keep Out HNHR 3 May 1215. Bird in usual hole (no tag?): 4 inc. eggs: ① 24.9 × 19.4 ② 24.8 × 19.6 ③ 25.2 × 19.5 ④ 25.1 × 20.0. 11 May 1715. Checked nest. 3 kids, ~6 to. Band ~5/26, 24 May 1030. Banded #6 left the 3 kids. Stores: yes. 6 Sept Some (old) stores here in the Keep Out area, so presumably lots still here. 2006 6 March Plenty of stores even over here in the "real" KO trees. 12 May Still stores here. 17 May Bird in (traditional) hole. 24 May 940. Opened the hole (#1326): 4 babies, ~8-9 to. Band ~5 June. 5 June 1100. Banded #6 left the 4 kids here. 2007 7 June Still stores here, even on the Keep Out side. 26 Aug Lots of stores, but just over at FAAR at this point. 2008 20 May 1245. Banded the single chick here. Lots of stores, esp. at FAAR but here also. 17 June 900. Bird in usual hole again: 5 eggs, incubated. EHD ~23 June. 2009 19 May 1515. 2 kids, ~7 to. Band ~2 June.

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2009 2010 WaltirD Koenny Melanerpes formicivorus KeepOut LINKR 11 July Plenty of stores, both in the trees by the nest and especially over by FAAR. 2010 3 May 1600. Bond in (old) hole. Eric climbed it: 4 eggs, couple days incubated. EHD ~ 12 May. Stores: yes. Hole tagged #1326 (tree 3246) 15 May 915. Checked nest: 1 hatchling, no more than 100, + 2 unhatched + apparently infertile eggs Band 3 June. 3 June 1400. Banded the 1 chick here. Plenty of stores.

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2005 2006 2007 Walton D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Arnold Schwartz HNHR 14 April Over in The area where they used to nest (just down from the old dump area) there are at least a few stores and, more interestingly, a nice new-looking hole in a moderate to small valley oak. Noone in it at the moment, however. 27 May 1300. Wandered over on the Bradley's new road, going not far - just below the old dump area on the S side - and saw a kid-old! - looking out of a low hole in a small dead limb. I went back and got the ladder but as I put it up, he flew out. Bummer. I went ahead and opened the hole, finding one more kid (now 4109) inside. I can't actually be positive this is ARSW - It's a ways from the granary and it could be some other group over by the canyon here. But I think it is. I'll set up an ambush and see if I can nab anyone else. The hole is tagged #914. See map on back. 6 Sept. No stores in the traditional granary. 2006 6 March Lots of stores in the traditional tree! 12 May Still stores here (and a bird!) 24 June 600. Got a NOBA 8" (A24?) roosting by himself in last year's nest hole this morning. 2007 6 May Plenty of stores in the traditional granary!

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2007 2009 2010 Walter D Keenig Melanerpes formicivorus Am. Schwartz HNHR 26 May Still stores and even a bird here but no sign of a nest. Kind of a mystery what's going on here. 26 Aug There are still at least a couple (literally) of [illegible] here! 2009 15 May 1100. Checked the nest: 4 eggs, 1 a runt. All pretty fresh. 2010 13 May 1600. Eric climbed The new hole in a Valley Oak up the canyon a ways: 4 fresh eggs, EHD: 24 May. Tree now tagged #8689. Hole tag 889085. 14 June 1330. Banded the 2 kits + re-tagged the tree (now #4192). Stores: some at [illegible]

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2005 2006 Walter D Poinig Melanerpes formicivorus Lambert HNHR 14 Apr 1530. Noone in it, but I went ahead and opened the new hole in the main granary here. It was empty, but in good shape. Stores? You bet. Old nest hole by the pond (hole 5815) was disintegrated, by the way. 3 May 1100. Bird in the new hole (now tagged #912): 3 fresh eggs. ① 26.2 x 18.7 ② 24.7 x 18.7 ③ 25.9 x 19.1, 11 May 1730. Still 3 eggs. 18 May 1000. 2 kids, ~5 do, + 1 unhatched but developed egg. Ambusher ready here. 1145. Got a 3! 24 May 1530. Here for a 2nd bird. 1600. Got a 3! Probably more, however. 27 May Trying for a 3rd bird here. 1200. So far, just the (banded) pair I've already caught. 1230. After 25-30 feet, it's still just the cpair 2 June 800. Banded & bled The 2 kids. Stores: Yes. 20 June 1430. Bird in (nest) hole: empty. 27 June I think these guys are getting at the low end of stores. 6 Sept. No stores left here. 2006 6 March Some stores here, but not a lot (unless they're storing somewhere now, which is not unlikely?) 12 May No stores left, best I can tell.

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2007 Waltford Koenig Melanerpes famicivorus Lambcut HWHK 6 May Checked the lower hole (tag #912): in good shape but empty. 26 May No acorns or birds up here, 27 May 2100. Ambushed the lower hole in The granary getting 34(38). But There are 2 other birds here. 26 Aug No stores here. 2008 4 May 1215. Trying for The NOBA 8 at the nest. 1235. 9:3365. 1300. 8'4482. $4190. 1400. Got him! Finally. Now #4496. 2009 20 Apr 1500. None in any holes, but a few acorns still here. 2010 5 Apr 1510. Bird in hole (opened earlier, but not used previously for nesting): 5 eggs, incubated, 1 egg a rent. Hole now tagged #5607. (Tree The old Valley Oak on the fence line #3265 [Loc K68], First nest of the year! Still stores here. 3 May 3 June 1340. Banded the 2 kids. Stores: yes! Pretty much out of stores now!

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2008 Waldir D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Bradley HNUK 7 June 1300. Opened The new nest hole here: 3 kids ~7 to (6 and 21 June). Hole tagged #8614; tree (a valley oak) tagged #8615. 17 June 1235. Trying to catch birds here, with no luck. But at least 1 NOBA♂ and NOBA♀ still here. 1300. Giving up and banding The 3 kids.

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2002 Walter D Koening 2004 2005 2006 Melanerpes forficatus Fanny Arnold HNYR 30 August Stores are left in the dead tree, which presumably is KeepOut's tree (or both?). No stores in this tree, however. 2004 20 April 1130. Plenty of stores, at least in the skinny snag (presumably KeepOut?) (Will see.) 2005 14 April The "FAAR" tree (especially The snag) is loaded with stores. 2006 17 May Lots of stores in the snag here.

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2005 Walter Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus UA2 2 June 1000. Wandering around here, I ran across a blue oak just this side of the old A3 area (actually, between A3 and the Surrey Canyon Live Oak over here) that has 3 good-looking holes in it! The lowest, only about 10' off the ground and facing Keep Out (more or less) looked particularly fresh, and after watching a short time and seeing a bird go in I opened it, only to find 1 fresh egg! [marked 1: 25.7 x 19.0]. Huh. 7 June Apparently this is the 2nd nest; Neil saw two NOBA juns here. 13 June 1315. 4 eggs, incubated. ①+② 24.6 x 18.6 ③ 24.8 x 18.7 ④ 25.3 x 18.7. Set ambushes up all over the place. 20 June 1500. Checked the nest: 3 kids (1 a rent) + 1 unhatched eggs. 25 June 500. Ambushed the old nest hole (2 birds: 43833 and 43997) and the new hole above the current nest hole (4 birds: 43733, 43994, an adult ♂ NOBA [4186] and a juv fledgling [4187]. Good haul! Also, note that ♂4186 was not roosting in the nest, so there's almost certainly a 2nd NOBA ♂. 28 June 1630. Got the NOBA ♂ #2. Now only 1 (?) NOBA kid left here 1 July 800! Bummer - 2 kids dead in nest. Guess catching.

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2005 2006 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus UAZ HNM (1 July) That β wasn't such a good idea after all. Bummer. Apparently they were left the one night and bred- something I figured could happen but didn't think would. 11 July 450. Ambushed all 3 of the known holes here, getting none in any of them! 6 Sept. A few (old) stores still here. 2006 6 March Stores: yes. 12 May A few but only a few, stores appear to remain here. 24 May 1000. Opened hole 5610 (last year's [2nd] nest): empty, but in good shape. Bird in new hole down in the lower tree. 26 May 1130 New hole opened, tagged #674. 4 eggs. Incubated ① 24.4 × 17.5 ② 24.0 × 18.9 ③ 24.2 × 18.2 ④ 24.2 × 19.1 (not developing or infertile). 4 June 1015. Checked nest: still 4 eggs. Cold. Abandoned? 7 June HND Eggs still there & cold. Apparently abandoned. 20 June Still some stores here. 24 June 600; Caught 2 birds in the old nest hole down the hill: #3833 and a new β (but banded).

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2007 Walt & Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus UAZ HNDUR 6 May 1015. Bird in old hole (now tagged #498) in lower VO: 10 eggs (1 a rent)! Heavens, a record! 6! [9/24/07] 7 June 1100. Banded & bled the 5 kids. There are at least a few acorns left. 26 Aug No stores remaining. 2008 24 April 930. Bird in hole (tagged #498). 6 eggs, fresh: ① 23.5 x 18.0 ② 23.7 x 18.2 ③ 23.8 x 17.0 ④ 24.1 x 18.3 ⑤ 22.9 x 17.6 ⑥ 23.5 x 18.4. EHD 3 May. 15 May 930. Went up to the hole: kids are making noises as expected. Nest is fine. 24 May 1100. Banded the 4 kids here. Stores: Yes. Tree #8698, Hole #498. 2009 19 May 1530. Bird in new hole in tree KS6 - could be UA2 or A1. Opened it: 9 eggs (1 a rent); just about to hatch. For now, guessing that it's UA2. 10 June 1030. Banded & bled the 7 kids! Stores: Yes (although not lots). 11 July Out of stores. 2010 11 May 1015. Bird in low hole in tree 120 (KS6) (county 889010): 8 fresh eggs! (over by A1)

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2004 2005 Walter D Koening Melanerpes formicivorus LA2 HNHR 27 May 1130. Hole empty! Burner! Lots of acorns still here. 10 August Still lots of stores. 2005 5 Feb. Ambushed the usual hole (in the outer Vally Oak) This morning, getting the NOBA ♀ (now 4032), 83034 + 83038, and a surprise - 93367, a daughter not seen since Aug. 2001! Bizarre. She has to be a helper (the 80's are her dads); presumably she's now outranked by the NBA ♀. 14 Apr 7 1615. Bird in one of the old holes back in the forest: The lowest hole on that limb that used to have at least 3 thit (now this is the only one left). Hole has 6 eggs (1 a runt): ① 24.8 × 19.2 ② 18.0 × 14.8 (Runt) ③ 26.2 × 18.6 ④ 25.3 × 18.9 ⑤ 25.3 × 17.9 ⑥ 24.0 × 18.9. Fresh. Hole now tagged #903. Perhaps both ♀♀ are laying? Incest? 19 Apr 7 915. Took the 6 eggs for the 3rd experimental removal of the year. Inc the 5 normal ones. 24 Apr 7 Eggs (2) hatched this morning. 10 May 1545. Bird in hole #903 again. 7 eggs, incubated (1 a runt again!) ① 25.8 × 18.7 ② 25.0 × 18.8 ③ 25.0 × 18.3 ④ 26.2 × 19.1 ⑤ 25.2 × 18.4 ⑥ 25.4 × 18.3 ⑦ 21.3 × 15.1 (the runt). EHD ~ 14 May. 18 May 1045. 5 kids, ~4 do, + 2 unhatched eggs (1 the runt)

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2005 2006 2007 Walford Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus LAZ HNHR 2 June 900. Banded & bled the 5 kids. Stores: Yes. 6 Sept. Lots of stores still (old). 2006 6 March 940. Birds in at least 2 holes. Stores: oh yes. 1 May Bluebirds nesting in the old hole in the outer Vally Oak (#5354?) 12 May 1345. Checked last year's hole (#903): 4 eggs +1 runt egg (5 total); incubated. ① 23.8×19.9 ② 24.6×19.4 ③ 24.0×18.7 ④ 23.5×19.3 ⑤ 17.8×14.2. Stores left here? Yes. 17 May 1215. Not hatched yet, but 3 eggs look ready (and I could hear a chick peeping from 1 of them). Egg #2 not developing. Hatched ~98 May. Band ~8 June. 24 May 1015. As expected - 3 babies, ~5 do, + 2 unhatched eggs (1 the runt). Band ~9 June. 7 June 1300. Banded & bled the 3 kids here. Stores? Yes indeed. 2007 6 May 1045. Bird in hole #903: 6 eggs (fresh), 1 a runt: ① 25.5×17.6 ② 24.9×18.8 ③ 23.3×19.1 ④ 24.1×19.1 ⑤ 23.5×20.0 ⑥ 17.7×15.0. This tree is now tagged #3255. 4 June 1500. Banded + bled the 5 kids. ②③④⑤⑥ here. 26 Aug They appear to be pretty much out of stores!

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2008 2009 2010 Waltord Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus LA2 HNHR 24 Apr 1000. Bird in old hole (tagged #903): 6 eggs, freshish. (1a runt). ① 24.4×18.9 ② 24.5×18.0 ③ 23.1×18.6 ④ 23.5×19.1 ⑤ 24.2×19.2 ⑥ ⑦ 17.4×14.1 EHD 3 May. 20 May 1530. Banded the 5 kids here. Plenty of stores. 17 June 1000. With a bird in the old hole yesterday, I went and reopened it: 5 eggs, 1a runt; incubated. This is hole tagged #5552 in The Valley Oak (tags 115/ K45/LA2). EHD ~ 23 June. 2009 20 Apr 1440. ♂ m/dB. #4256 sitting by himself next to a new (unopened) hole in the outer tree. Noone inside, however (apparently). Lots of stores here. 10 June 1100. Banded the 2 kids here. Plenty of stores, Nest also had one old egg in it. 2010 15 May 900. Checked the nest: 3 kids, ~7 do, +1 unhatched egg. Band 29 May. 29 May 915. Banded the 3 kids here. Plenty of stores. Hole 88'9009 in the big Valley Oak.

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2005 2006 2007 Walter D Koemig Melanerpes formicivorus Branca Norte HNHR 15Apr7 1500. Bird in new hole, lower & in a new limb but the same tree. Now tagged #904. 7 eggs: ① 25.9 x 19.4 ② 26.2 x 19.2 ③ 26.8 x 19.1 ④ 25.7 x 18.9 ⑤ 28.6 x 19.1 ⑥ 25.7 x 18.9 ⑦ 24.9 x 19.4 Eggs incubated, EHD ~ 20 Apr7. Good number of stores here. 26Apr7 1030. Checked nest: 5 babies (no eggs), ~ 3-4 do. Band ~ 13 May. 11 May 1630. Banded & bled the 5 kids. Plenty of stores here. 6 Sept. A few new acorns here, but I think they must otherwise have run out of stores this summer. 2006 6 March 930. Bird in hole (?) Also: plenty of stores here. 12 May Plenty of stores still! 7 June And still stores, even though there's still no sign of a nest. 12 June 1607. Bird looking out of hole (one facing BKOK) - a baby!!?! Hole is #5811. 1630. 6 kids! Ready to go. Banded & bled them. That was close.... 2007 6 May 1100. Bird flushed from hole #5811 (treetag #326): 10 eggs, a nunt, pretty fresh! Stores? Yes - lots.

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2007 2008 2009 2010 Wallnut Koens Melanerpes formicivorus Bianca North MNHR 4 June 1500. Climbed up to band the kids only to find a large, well-fed gopher snake in the hole. After pulling him out There were still 2 (dead) kids in The hole. Wing chords: 62+57 mm. All cleared out. Plenty of stores left, at least. 26 August No stars left here. 2008 (S811) 24 April 1030. Bird in the deep hole (tagged? I forgot to look). It was hard to reach the bottom, but I'm pretty sure There were 7 eggs; unfortunately, I broke one while fiddling around trying to count Them. In any case, They were dirty but fairly fresh. EHD ~3 May. 7 May 1430. Checked The nest: 4 kids, no eggs, ~3 do. 21 May 180. Banded The 4 kids. Plenty of stores. 2009 28 April 1230. Checked hole #5811 (new cut): empty. (Bird in There yesterday). Lots of stores here. 2 June 1145. Checked hole 5811 again: still empty; still lots of stores. 20 June 1500. Bird(s) in hole 5811 again: still empty! 2010 14 May 1400 Reopened the old hole up in The forest, now tagged 5608: 4 incubated eggs. Tree is totally overgrown with poison oak and untagged, at least for now. EHD 5/18. 29 May 945. Checked nest: 2 kids, 6-7 do. Band ~12 June

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2005 (W)N D Koering 2006 Melanerpes formicivorus Branca HNNR 18 May 1100. Finally - bird flushed from (old) main granary. They have kids! 19 May 1500. It was not the old hole (#5802) (I also checked hole #1146 - could be fixed up). Instead, it's a new hole a bit further out & up - unfortunately far enough to require the ladder. 20 May 1000. Brought up the 40' ladder & opened the hole (now tagged #915): 3 kids (1 runty and on the way out), ~15 do or so. Banded them just so I wouldn't have to get up here again! 6 Sept. Lots of (old) stores here. 2006 6 March 930. Birds in 2 holes in granary. Stores: definitely 12 May Plenty of stores still. Bird flew out of last year's hole 13 May 830. 4 eggs in last year's hole (#915) ① 26.8 x 18.5 ② 25.7 x 18.9 (this egg not developing) ③ 27.1 x 17.9 ④ 26.4 x 18.1 . 5-6 days incub, hatch on 18 May? 24 May 1030. 3 babies (1 runtish), ~ 7-8 do. + 1 unhatched egg. Banded ~ 6 June. 4 June Banded & bled the 3 kids, Stores: Yes. 12 Sept. Still a few stores here.

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2007 Walter D Koenig 2008 2010 Melacerpes formicivorus BIANCA HNYR 17 May 1000. Banded & bled The 3 kids. Hole in old nest/granary tree - tag #915, tree #3259 (in ravine) 26 Aug These guys still have old stores. 2008 21 May 1100. Banded the single kid here. Stores? Sure. 2 July 845. 9 in hole. 2009 2 June Still lots of stores here, even though there's no sign of a nest. 20 June 1445. Bird in old nest hole! 2010 16 June 1730. A (man) fledgling in a new hole over toward south ravine from The granary-tree now tagged #237 (a blue oak with several caritics - this is The crummy one!). Banded the 2 kids! Hopefully we didn't miss any but it's certainly possible. Plenty of stores here. Hole (in The celt) tagged #8893(2

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Walked Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Branca Negra HNHR 20Apr7 A few acorns here, but not many. None in the holes either. 13May 1105. Bird in last year's hole. (tag #5803) 1400. 5 eggs, 1 a (small!) rent. ① 25.8 × 19.1 ② 25.5 × 19.3 ③ 26.1 × 18.7 ④ 26.1 × 19.7 ⑤ 17.3 × 14.1 (!) (has a small hole in it, but otherwise it's intact). Eggs incubated. 18May 1500. Checked nest: 3 hatchlings, alive but- cold (!) Tried to get out as soon as I could but it may have been too late. 2June Catherine suggested about a week ago at least that the nest here had indeed failed, and today I finally checked it, finding it totally empty. 10August No stores. Plus, it appears that a major (the major?) storage limb has fallen, leaving not much in the way of storage facilities here. 2008 15May 1000. Checked nest (in hole #5803): 4 eggs, incubated. Eggs 1-3 previously numbered, ④ 24.8 × 19.2. 2009 17March 900. Two birds chasing a 3rd out of the grove here. 6June 1440. Bird in the hole! (hole 5803). 8June 1150. None in the hole this time. 20June 1445. Bird in hole 5803!

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