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1989 M. Stanback
M. Formicivorus
KOUT
HNHR
18 Apr 0500-0700 Egg toss watch. 0530 9 1668 to hole - looks in. 0545 9 OKO MKO looks in, 8 1616 lands. 0600
9 1668 lands - leaves. 0645 99 1668, 1670, and OKO MKO land by hole along w 8 1016 - only 1670 enters (she stays in for 10 sec) other fems leave w/o looking in. 1016 stays, looks in several times then leaves. 0655 9 1668 looks in, then leaves, guarding
20 Apr 0930 Well, I'm not sure what to make of it, but one guess is that there's 1 BF, not 3. (They were all NOBA's, so could've been missed nest.) 1 egg, labeled #1.
21 Apr 1100 Jumping to conclusions, eh? The egg was gone, there were no replacements. Thus egg tossing.
22 Apr 0500 start watch. @ 0600 a bunch of birds come to hole r go in (4). Eventually 3 88 come out (8 P& not let in). Finally 9 out. Immediately 9 KO () arrives - I chase her away r climb. A runt egg. I replace it w a dead normal egg (I'm not sure why I did). Anyway, in the next hour 9 MKO () looked in twice (ie 2 visits) and 9 KO () landed once, but didn't look in. At 0823, all 3 9 and several 88 landed. KO () + MKO () went in. DD () didn't. After @ 1 min a 9 came out with the egg in her bill, followed by 2 88. The other 9 stayed in @ 30 sec more, then appeared and left. I climbed - empty.