1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Arnold 2 Hastings Reservation (13 May) was still inside the nest. It's impossible to tell at this point whether it's shell was pecked at or otherwise accidentally broken prematurely or whether it somehow died in hatching. The remaining 2 were measured and weighed. 14 May 1100. Counted stores: BlueOak: 190 3 491 VallyOak: 351 Nest was being attended. 15 May 1730. Checked nest and measured babies. 19 May 1900. Checked nest and measured baby-wickers. 23 May 1730. Checked nest- 2 babies heard inside. 30 May 1900. Opened nest - 2 babies are fine- and ①, the banded one, is a leucistic bird lacking melanins just like dear old Ms. Bianca! 31 May 1530. Opened nest, measured babies and took a few pictures. 3 June 1045. Opened the nest again, banding, bleeding, and taking lots of pictures of the babies. Ted, Kelley, and Debbie came along 12 June 1845. Noises apparently still coming from the nest. 14 June 1750. Watching. 1805. Zero. Going to check holes. Walking back behind the '75 nest tree, I flushed one fledgling who was clearly having a very hard time flying. He was normal, though, and otherwise I saw/heard no other birds. They have fledged, at least. 1930. ② sitting in perch tree, or Wh / Red- ? Bants seemed definitely reversed from what they should have been to be ①133. 12 June Bianca Field [illegible] 1715. Walking from here over to Bianca, I came upon numerous remiges and rectrices, all white and with small vestigial sheaths, below the forest edge at the LA2-Bianca interface. A search produced no body, but malheureusement the leucistic baby, #276, is dead.