1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Change Hastings Reservation 4 October 930. Watching. 950. ①♀ub working acorns in the storage tree. 1010. ♀ub still here hawking; ②♂DB/ LP-LB #252 just joined. 1015. ③♂ub came and stored an acorn. 1050. ④♂ LB/Wn-Red #234 in sycamore. 1105. Several birds here storing/working stores 1110. Some poor unfortunate just got chased away from the storage tree and sycamore area by a coalition of all 4 of the above birds. 1230. Nobody new. The above 4 birds were here fairly consistently however; especially the ♀, who sat and hawked much of the time. Otherwise the birds mostly stored acorns and worked stores. The newly stored acorns attest to the activity seen this morning: 535 acorns. 5 October 845. In hide again; net up. 855. A raucous wark clued me to a ♀ getting chased out of the storage tree: ♀ LB/Blue/Red-Yellow [?] ! (By an unidentified 2nd bird). also possibly ④314 (caught at (Plaque) apparently #282 (juv from Finch) ♂LB or M / Red-Yel 900. She's still here: ♀ 4u(?) -Red / Yel-Red . A brief check through the listing doesn't give a clear choice for her identity. 930. ♂ub over by the sycamores. 945. ♂ub eating acorn in sycamore. 1000. ♂LB/Wn-Red#234 by sycamores with ♂ub; birds not spending much time in storage tree. Also ♂ Dark/Wn-LB #252 seen. 1045. Leaving, but the net will be left up. 1900. While coming to check the net I flushed a bird who had been quietly working stores and who obligingly flew into the net to become ♂319 (to replace ♂351ub). Taking net down.