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1976 (Walter D. Koerig)
Melanerpes fuscicollis
School Hill
Hastings Reservation
20 August
1015. Several of these birds (3-4) are over in the upper
part of 1500 eating/picking green acorns; see 1500 notes.
22 August
1630. Watching; nobody immediately obvious.
1650. ♀️ hawking in storage area.
1702. (1) ♀️ LP/IM #86 and (2) ♂️ ub.
1705. (3) wa-Dk/or - #249 probing into a storage hole. Wrong!
This ♀️ wa-Dk/la #256 with a dark eye!
1730. Now (4) wa-Bk/or - #299 is here.
1732. ♂️86 just landed next to a Kestrel in the storage tree,
managing to displace the larger bird.
1745. (5) ♂️W/W #195 here on side with the others.
1800. (6) ♀️ M/LO #193 eating an acorn (stored, I think) in the
storage area.
1810. Several birds still in the vicinity; some interest in
stores still definitely evident.
1830. All quiet. Time to go.
As far as I can tell, they have finally run out of stores: even
the low limb in the 1st tree have been cleaned.
1900. 3 birds at 1500 were no doubt of this group (I'd
suspected them to be down there when I found nobody on my
descent and heard several birds down there). (4) ♂️194 was
identified for sure; also probably ♂️ub and ♂️256. See 1500
notes for details.
1 September
845. j298 (and possibly others) at 1500. See 1500 notes.
7 September
I first walked up to School Hill "B", where there were no birds, but
where the roost hole in the small dead Blue Oak has fallen. This is the
only roost hole I ever found for this territory.