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1986 Walter D Koenig
Melanerpes formicivorus
FED: 18 April
CS(set) = 6 (♀793=4)
eggs tossed: 5 (all by ♀793?)
HNHR
1800 Nest Record
18 April 800
1 egg (laid this morning) by ?
#1 : 22.3 x 18.4
19 April (Katy)
800
♀787 laid; ♀793 tossed
No eggs in nest (#1 gone)
20 April (Katy)
800
♀787 laid
1 egg (now #1): 24.0 x 19.2
21 April (Katy)
♀787 laid: 24.5 x 19.0
(20 Apr egg gone)
22 April (Susan) 805 (I climbed)
Nobody laid; no eggs in nest
23 April (Katy)
(Mark climbed: empty)
Everybody in hole: 1 egg laid,
♀793 tossed (presumably)
24 April (Susan)
Not ♀793?
Not tossed
① 24.3 x 19.5
25 April (Susan)
Not tossed ♀793?
① Still there. 2nd egg
laid by? ② 24.5 x 20.3
26 April (Susan)
Both eggs still there; both
♀8 laid: 4 eggs now
(3)
(4)
No eggs laid by 0730. I think
2 eggs laid after Susan left.
27 April (Susan)
Both
⑤ 24.1 x 19.2
⑥ 24.3 x 19.2
28 April (Susan)
1530
No eggs laid after 0515.
Still 6 eggs
30 April 1400
1 May PM - 2 May AM
♀770 tossed all eggs!
(see Mark's notes).