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[[top left margin]]RD Sage 1965
[[top right margin]] 36 [[circled]]
Xylocopa sp.
[[underlined]]5.5km SE. [[Desomparados]], 1260m, San Jose, Costa Rica[[/underlined]]

the view and she retreated up the burrow a little further but her head was still visible. It was cloudy overhead and the wind was blowing. Very little saw dust remains visible outside the nest entrance.
08:47 Backed out of burrow so only head was inside. Her body was covered with small saw dust and gave her a very light colored appearance. 0851 Came out of burrow and remained quietly at entrance until 09:01. Began a few wing beats. At 09:02 flew off nest tree. Circled the tree twice & flew off. Measured the cavity in her absence. It is approx 24mm to the back of it. 0915 Began to rain. Returned at 09:29. Sawdust gone off her back. Found the entrance with no false starts. Apparently went right back to work. 

[[left margin]]12 August 
[[underlined]]2.5km E., 4km N.[[Chitario?]], 600m, [[Cartago?]], Costa Rica[[/underlined]]
[[left margin]] 12 August
11:58 Saw large carpenter bee fly from cut tree. It came from [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] 30ft up. Circled the area and then disappeared. Sighted 3 nests holes close to one another. Collected a woodpecker off 12:15. 
[[image=drawing of woodpecker holes in tree]]