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1976 Walter D. Koenig
Melanerpes formicivorus
Bianca
Hastings Reservation
5 September
845. ☐♂ Bianca #140 and a 2nd bird sitting in perch tree East of storage.
Other birds across the canyon towards Lamberts (see LA2 notes) but none
of these could be identified as Bianca birds. Now I'm sitting in hide
at Bianca itself.
915. ☐♀ 4-R/1A #141 near storage area.
930. ☐♂ub here now.
933. After barrit-cutting for a minute, the ub♂ attracted
☐♂ R/W #142 and a ♀; the former of whom promptly chased the
ub♂ off. Ms. Bianca is in the vicinity now also.
945. ☐♂ LB/Or-? (?) here, not a Bianca bird. He didn't call but
merely wandered around, and soon Bianca landed nearby, causing
the intruder to hide and soon fly away without having to be
displaced. This bird is certainly ☐♂204, a 2nd-yr ♂ from Arnold 3.
1045. ☐♂ LALW #217 plus a ♀ who had clearly lost a wing-streamer
from her right wing (thus either 215/251) in the side of the area;
the ♂ was eating a nice big green acorn.
1100. ☐♂ub eating an acorn next to ☐♂#217 in the side area (toward Bell's)
1105. ☐♂ Or/1W? #214
now eating acorn in side "area"
1120. ☐♂ LBRW #215 just picked a Black Oak acorn from the perch tree.
This would suggest that the above bird (at 1045) was ☐♀251.
(On second thought, she could have been ☐♀213 as well).
1140. Finally found a juv- sitting and urrking softly
in the lower Black Oak perch tree: ☐♂ LB/Or-rator? #303.
I am otherwise beginning to seriously doubt the
existence of any of the others, however.
1145. Leaving.
13 September
1015. Several birds on "☐☐☐" "North" hill side of territory