1981 R.L. Mumme Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Haystack (11 may) 10 seconds later without going back down. 1900, a rude shock after checking hole and turning off movie camera: Egg is gone! And nobody saw it thrown out! Chief suspect is Byron (see his notes), but it is possible that Walter, Janet or I blew it. Seems like it would have had to have been ♀523 that threw the egg out, but we may never know. End 1900. 12 May Start OSOS, watching granary for behavior. 0552, ♂523 flies from broken tree to Blue Oak, and is followed by ♂307. It looks like ♂523 entered the Blue Oak hole at this time, with ♂307 in attendance. At 0600, ♂523 out of hole, scaling moss off limbs of Blue Oak. 0745, ♂523 + ♂307 back in the Blue Oak area, ♂523 really ripping apart the moss on the main trunk of that tree. Seems to be looking for (and finding) insects underneath the moss mat. 0800, ♂523 tosses egg laid by ♀524 earlier that day in the 1980 nest hole (see Walter's notes) She carries it to back branch of granary, sets it down intact on a near horizontal section of a mostly vertical limb, flies off (perhaps scared away by Walter's and my screaming yelling to each other. Anyway, Walter the. locates the egg in the granary, sets up his camera ad the hide in a position on the S side of the granary