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1976 Walter D. Koenig
Melanerpes formicivorus
Road 1
Hastings Reservation
11 January 1430. Removed 70 acorns from the Valley Oak storage tree
here and 30 from the Sycamore.
Acorns marked:
Main tree (Valley Oak):
① 15 Yellow on N fork of middle limb.
② Red 15 same facing road:
③ 15 Blue facing Finch, center main trunk →
④ 15 Green, 5 high, 10 low, same limb
low → high
⑤ 7 Sienna in a column below ④ (light)
Sycamore:
⑥ 17 Yellow: below 2nd nest:
⑦ 16 Red above ⑥
Total marked: 100
No birds were identified; things
were fairly quiet.