Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4462
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1994 M. Stanback M. Formicivorus KOUT HNHR 2 Apr Lots of acorus stored all over gran tree. Hello holes - nada. 18 Apr Hello - nada. 2 May 1130 4 Fresh eggs in burn snag. Low hole Facing ARSW. I didn't cut it open (rush). J Found it. 10 May 0630 Put the 3 biggest Ravi kids in here to replace the 4 dead eggs I took out. 15 May 1019 Yow-ee - Zowee! I came up to do a Ravi-Kout- ate baby switch & low & behold there's a bird in the hole. Unfortunately, it wasn't the NOBA 9. A banded 8. I do the baby switch, stash the ladder & hop on the 4 wheeler at 1015. By 1030 I've done the bleed - at the lab. That must've been a land speed record. I then lap him, but don't see shit. Oh well, reband him. This is 1340, an A1 breeder (the younger of 2) What is going on here, Jeremy drives back up & releases him. So now this nest has 4 kids (the entire Ravi nest minus the big kid, who will sit in Ravi until he goes into Gate to replace the sawed kid. 22 May 0630 Set & ready. After about 1.5 hrs I get NOBA 9 afterwards I decide to try For a BM, who I catch, take down to the lab after 2 bleeds, lap (4 Fov) - Timplant. I process blood, then release 26 May Caught BM 2165 at Al ambush! Lap wound didn't look good.