1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus 1500 Hastings Reservation (6 October) These birds, like the other "regular" groups, are busy storing acorns. 9 October 1120. Watching. Several hundred acorns adorn the storage trees here. 1135. ①♂ (B/Or #95 and ②♀ WH/DB #260 both storing in tree 2. also ③♂ R.W.-R/M #194 and ④♂ Re?/La-y #88. Now all in Storage area. 1155. The ♀ is eating an acorn in tree 2, where the ♂♂ are storing; it's perhaps too hot to be doing much hawking right now. 1205. Leaving. All 4 birds busy storing. These are the only birds here today; (presumably) the young bird(s) have returned to School Hill (like #298). 10 October Rurze: ♂44. I most certainly saw this bird here on 26 June; I last claim to have seen him (rather poorly) on 22 August, just after the School Hill birds apparently invaded. If this latter sighting was he, he was still certainly gone by 28 September. Disappeared about 9 September ± 2 weeks. The implication is thus more or less that he was "forced out" by the invasion of School Hill birds; this may indeed have been the case but if so why were "revolution" conditions (chasing, etc.) never observed here? It was a quiet coup indeed! I will officially move the School Hill birds here in a few weeks when it's clearer who's staying and who's returning. 18 October 125. ♂ m/or #88 chased off a jay from tree 4 as I was sitting there watching at 1800. Add: ♂♂ 88, 194, and 195; all 3 moved to 1500 about 15 August.