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1995 Walter D Koenig
1996
Melanerpes formicivorus
Arnold Schwarzenegger HNHR
21 April 1700. Bird in crumbly hole over by the dump! Opened it: 3 eggs, fairly fresh. Measured one: 25.5 x 19.0 mm.
26 April 1300. None in the hole, but there are still 3 eggs and they look incubated.
3 May 1000. Eggs have hatched: 3 nestlings, 1-2 do.
11 May 900. Still 3 kids. Jim going to do a watch here.
16 May 915. Heard the kids here as I walked by.
24 May Banded and bled the 2 kids here this afternoon.
There are still acorns left here!
1996
9 January 1545. Counted 102 stored acorns here, almost all in the main tree. (There are only a few in the limbs in the small valley over toward Keep Out.)
12 April 1430. No stores left here, best I can tell. The old nest hole in the big VO, and last year's nest hole, have fallen.
11 October A nest! With old babies, right next to last year's in a knothole. Banded 2 kids