1991 Walter D Goenig Melanerpes formicivorus 7 MPHE HNHR (19 May) a bird looked out and left, and that was it. So I can guess that 81614 replaced 81613 and that 81614 spent the night in the nest, but it's only a guess, unfortunately. 81614 might have just visited briefly and left. 20 May 81613 in nest 1945. Tonight it was definitely 81613 alone in the nest; 81614 didn't come by at all. 21 May 915. Checked nest: 6 babies; retrieved the parasite board. 29 May 1600. Checked the nest. Still 6 babies! Morné watched tonight and reports that 81613 roosted alone in the nest. 30 May Morné got 81613 roosting in the nest once again. 2 June 1530. Plenty of babies and stores here. Set up an ambusher for Mark. 15 July 8 December 1530. Still plenty of stores here. w/ Connie Ambushed this morning at the old nest hole in the tree up from this year's nest hole in order to get plasma for Stanback. Got 7 birds - all 4 breeders plus 3 babies. It took awhile to get them all out (The hole is deep) and I did not do them in the order I pulled them, but otherwise the extensive bleeding Stanback had requested went fine. Only glitches: 3 of the "c" tubes got mixed up in the process of being transferred back to the lab; these were saved as "1 of 3 birds" samples. Also, I completely spaced out taking any other data on the birds, like weight. Oh well. I did get 5 samples from each spaced at "0", 10, 20, 40 & 70 minutes. The birds were kept in separate bags and all processed in the same order each time.