1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanarpes formicivorus Keep Out Hastings Reservation (14 June) 1900. Walking down from Lambert, I ran into j.m./dark #273 softly working in the forest just up from the storage tree. Meanwhile jor-la/ #274 was also softly working while sitting in the sap tree virtually immobile in front of a set of holes (the tree along the fenceline). Since this group is out of stores, it is not surprising that the kids are reduced to relying heavily on sap, as has been the case in other groups without stores in the past. j274 continued to sapsuck steadily until I left at 1910. 15 June 8'la/1B#118 hawking in middle tree toward Lambert's. (800) 823. Now being assaulted by the sque-trrr ing of j-/bike #274 (below) his flycatch perch. 849. Both 8'118 and 9Or-y/Or-y #109 in middle tree now with at least one kid begging below: 24 June 1200. 9109 near sap tree sitting. No stores remaining. One of the kits was seen sapsucking (j275) 28 June 900. j274 caught at Arnold Spring. See Journal. 29 June 815. j-black/orange #273 at storage tree, apparently extracting some [illegible] gorties from a storage hole (possibly a trace of acorn bits left here?) 840. Drilling in the storage tree led me to find the adult 9 and a begging juvenile (bands not seen on either). Though I could not be positive, it would seem pretty definite that some remnants of acorns remain stored here and are being used by the birds. 1840. 9109 sapsuckling. 29 July 855. 8'118 stole 'zanaacorn from Lambert. See Lambert notes: 950. 8'118 eating an acorn (green?) in forest on Hastings side next to Big Tree; 9 here too. Calls downhill (toward spring) indicate that others are there.