Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4449
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1989 1990 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes famicius Arnold Schwartzenegger HINHR 28 May 1845. Set up for eventual nest ambushing here. Only 1 baby in nest! 1 June 1545 Set up and waiting 1615. Got the ♀! Now #1753. 1815. Leaving for now. No other feeders! 2 June 950. Set up again. Trying for 8624. 1030. 8624 and 91753 fed, but didn't go inside the hole. I may have to do a night ambush for the ♂ after all. 120. Quitting. A night ambush it is. 3 June 445. No problem. Got up at 300, pulled the string about 330 or so, got 8624, bled him and returned him to the hole by 410. 1990 11 January 1100. No sign of any stores (or birds) here, despite some reasonable storage limbs: 2 in the granary, The tree 1/2-way down toward Keep Out, and one other limb up toward the stock pond. Combined, I'd guess capacity here at on the order of 1500 acorns! 2 April 1020. No birds in evidence. 22 April 1200. Several birds in the tree here, possibly Keep Out or even Lambert birds? ♀1753 down at LA2; see LA2 notes. 15 May No activity here for some time. 2 June Still no activity around here.