1993 M. Stanback M. Formiciverus NOON HWHR (18 Apr) 1030 Returned to cut open hole. Marked eggs 1+2. Roost watch: Set ambush and... they (2) went into the other hole. I think 3rd bird is elsewhere in tree. Damn. I guess I'll try to catch 8 at nest. 19 Apr 0610 Set and ready. At @ 0635 9 wgm arrives r starts looking in hole, she visits other hole but Finally goes in at 0642. 8 2068 arrives r looks in but also looks at ambusher. At 0647 8 2085 (was not on field list - a baby From last yr) arrived r 9 out. Both left. After a while, 9 returned r went in. (> he chattered when she came out) 2068 continued to visit r look in, but only 2085 would go in. Here's where my major fuck up becomes apparent. Had I looked in the field list I would've realized that this BF was not 2069. It is intact 2092, a buckeye spring baby. Thus both 88 are breeders. I assumed that. 2085 was just a precocious helper. I could've pulled the string on him, but...oh no... I thought I needed 2068, who didnt want to go in. He Finally did at 0742. I pulled The string r thus got 2068 and 2069, but as I started to climb the tree, 2068 Flies out of the other hole - he had pecked through the rotten wall separating the 2 cavities - in less than 2 minutes. So... I had the 9, who I didn't really want.