1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus School Hill (19 June) ½ hour or more several birds are drilling at acorns in the storage tree now. 756. Back to hawking. More feedings 806. ♀193/♀ub/?/?/♀191/♀193/♀ub/♂256/?/♀191/♀193/♂256/[12] 812. ♀191/♀ub/♀191/♀193/♀191/♂888/♀193/♀191/♂194/♂886/♂888/♂886/[12] 830. ♀191 begged from and fed by ♂888. Stopped watching feedings at 0835: total of 72 feedings in 2 hrs—by far the fastest I've seen this year. Continuing to watch for 2nd ub ♀. Feedings are both insects and acorn bits, mostly former; the rate has already slowed appreciably from the madhouse earlier. 900. Going to count stores. It seems quite certain that ♂192 is no longer living here, most likely having been on the way to moving when I last saw her at 4 during the April revolution. The 2nd ub ♀ is most likely not here either (given the difficulties of proving that a 2nd ub bird is not in a group); I saw the one ub ♀ numerous times and each time she seemed to be the same bird (by plumage characters). I suspect that she moved right at the start of the egg-laying here (as I saw 2 ub ♀ around here 2 days before finding the nest with 4 eggs); in any case she apparently did not contribute to the nest this year, unlike last, and apparently left/disappeared sometime around the start of the nest by the other ♀. Stores: Tree: 180; 2: SDS; total 685 One of the larger limbs in tree 1 has fallen, resulting in the loss of perhaps ~300 acorns stored. About 225 holes (only 10 still stored in it).