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1993 Walter D Koenig
Sialia mexicana
Hastings Reservation, Monterey Co., Calif.
28 April
800. Box 256: 4 eggs. ♀ on nest, flushed,
12 May
915. Box 250: Eggs.
1010. Box 256: babies a couple days old. ♀NOBA brooding.
I'd say: band by ~22 May at least.
(1200. Box 259 (ARF,TOD): Eggs! 3 nests up here!
13 May
1100. Natural cavity at Blonone (same hole as last year) near
box 213: Eggs. (Actually, in the middle of the triangle made by
boxes 213, 202, #332.)
14 May
1000. Box 45: Yellow a definite ♂; Red a ♂ (or, improbably, a very
bright ♀).
18 May
807. Box 259: still 5 eggs.
815. Box 256: 4 babies. Setting up to catch adults. Baby(1) is 20.8gm
842: Caught ♂NOBA. Now ♂ DB/DB LA/LA WL:103 wt:26.7g
(#1998) 2Y by 10th 10 Bleb(#1)
900. Caught ♀NOBA# Now ♀ LA/LA WL:99 wt:29.1g
(#1999) 2Y by 10th 10 Bleb(#2)
930. Box 25D: v young babies; ♀NOBA brooding.
20 May
1045. Natural cavity at Blonone: still 4 eggs. (Box 213")
1240. Set up to catch birds at natural cavity at 309, which has
4 eggs + 1 baby, est 9 do.
1400. Caught the ♀NOBA: Now ♀ DB/DB WL:100 wt 27.0g
2Y by 10th 10 Bleb(#1)
21 May
1000. Back for the ♂ at 309 natural cavity (still 1 baby).
23 May
1445. ♀NOBA at 309 natural cavity (finally): now ♀ LB/LB WL 99 wt 25.8
2Y by 10th 10 Bleb(#1)
Baby also banded: LP-DB BP-BLK [WL:37 wt:26.0g (not sexable yet)]
30 May
1300. 3 live +1 dead baby (Red) at box 273; 5 babies at box 274.