1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Pump. (18 February) 1155-1215. Sat in the truck, but no birds came by. 1415. Still woone when I came by. 1800. Took net down. Still nobody. 23 February 1210. Came by to discover ① nearly all the acorns have disappeared since the 18th and ② a ③ unbanded and ④ ⑤/Red-Wt #16 from Y (⑥ presumably #309) working over the storage tree. Rather than stay I left to get the net. 1600. Watching. Several birds are in the oak-willow forest, some distinct begging was heard. At 1610 ⑦ ⑧/Red-Wt or #22 (from Y) was working stores in the storage tree. 1645. ⑨ #22 is back in the storage tree eating acorns. I'm going to drill holes. I drilled another 100 holes (total 600), all large, mostly >½". There are literally only 10 or so of the 250 acorns I put in last week remaining. 25 February I came by at 1200 to drill holes; there were no birds here, but then again there weren't any acorns left either. I did see one bird land in the large Valley Oak just up from the willow while I was drilling, however. I drilled another (and probably final) 400 holes for a grand total of 1000 in the tree. I also stuck in another 50 acorns to try and bait back some of the birds into the net, which I put up also. 1 March 1430. I came by and scared away 4 birds (not Y, as I'd just seen 2 of them, but possibly the same birds as had first shown up when I first put acorns in). All the acorns were