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1991
WaltorD Koenig
Melanerpes formicivorus
Lower Haystack
HNHR
5 January
1700. Counted stores: Main tree: 4660
2° tree: 610
5270.
Doing fine, but they to have even more space than This.
I'd guess capacity to be ~6500.
4 March
*Group Update*
jl897. Not seen since banding on 4 July.
@1723. Last seen 16 Oct, gone by 29 Oct → D.A. 23 Oct ±1 wk.
9 April
845. Watching. Lots of stores still here, by the way.
900. Birds sapsucking over in saddle area; moving blind.
915.①♂/DB-? #1629 sapsucking.
930.①♀ wm-/DB-cm(n)#1679 sapsucking on [illegible] her own.
934.③♂ &db/m #1896.
↑57.⑩♂ -DB/Yel #1521.
1014.⑤♂ Bk/-cm #1155.
1040. Stopping. See guarding data on back. No sign of
mate-guarding as yet, but everyone's here (with the possible
exception of 8/1898).
13 April
1000. Watching again for a bit. ⑩♂ / rel#1521.
1130. Got some mate-guarding, but I have to catch some 88
here; The only I I can identify reasonably well is 8/1896.
The 3 breeder 88 are very difficult to discriminate from a distance.
23 April
800. Watching.
835.⑤ b.h.
840. ④ w/ 8/1155
900. End. Spending time sapsucking over by Fortatauga.
900. Checked the traditional granary hole: empty.
27 April
930. ④ in traditional granary hole: still empty, though.
28 April
1445. Checked traditional hole & hole in "saddle" VO: both empty still.