1985 Mark Stanback
M. formicivorus
BLM 1 Hastings Reservation
21 May 1150 arrive. ♀ attentive at new hole
(hole near ground, in small tree NE of granary)
1152 ♀ (same, lite bands on left) begins working on hole
1201 ♀ still working, ♀ ♂ appear near hole
1207 ♂ has brown rt shoulder, ♀ just sitting at hole
1212 ♀ begins work again, other birds no longer visible
1228 ♂ joins ♀ at nest — remains nearby, later leaves
1235 another ♀ comes to nest tree, then flycatches back to gran
1242 ♀ 809 leaves nest, returns to granary
1257 ♂ attentive near nest hole for @ 5 min
1331 3 birds (at least 1 a ♀) leave granary, fly toward new hole
1 stops 3/4 way to it, another stops in hole tree, third
goes beyond and the same distance again to knoll
1338 ♀ w red on rite, lite color lower left tail in good condit
Another ♀ seen minutes earlier — thought then to be 809 had
tail end in poor condit, w only rachis showing
1347 ♀ w d blue? on rite, red ♂ M left has bad tail
1350 This ♀ flew toward BLM 2 and out of sight (from granary)
1353 good tail (Y+M? ♀) ♀ in granary
1355 bad tail ♀ (?) lands beside good tail; vocalizations
crouching, bad tail flies NW 200 yds, sits, disappears
1402 492 identified in granary, good tail, brown rt shoulder
1418 good tail ♀ ♂ atop granary 809
1435 no defense by woodpeckers 6 starlings in granary tree, 2+ hover
departed — end observations and land at cut hole on main trunks