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Good Morning All,

Apologies all around for the delay in briefing you wonderful cam viewers of the goings-on! Here's the latest...The camera is down for some inexplicable reason right now 8:15 MST, soon to be rectified, but I will give you all a daily report anyway from now on as the monsoon storms require us to shut down and unplug daily now.


This morning the female ACWO (bird shorthand, for Acorn Woodpecker!) was seen bringing in acorns and looking for places to stash them. She succeeded in squeezing one in the upper left corner, which you'll be able to see. She came and went a few times with acorns in her beak, but didn't put them down. Its a mystery to all of us here why these two are not breeding. If they are brother and sister, they won't to be sure, but why were they in the box together? We have a research project going on at the ranch called MoMs (see 'Kate's Field Notes' on our website) and I have consulted them too as well as CLO. We are all puzzled, which is why these cams are so valuable as research tools, a gateway into the secret life of cavity-nesters!

All we can do is watch and take notes! They always give me pleasure watching them with or without nestlings.

More to come,

Kate
Birdland Ranch Cam Host