1977 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Haystack-Blomquist Hastings Reservation 16 January 1545.07 w/m- DP/Or #247 sapsucking in a Valley Oak just down from the storage tree on Blomquist. Counted stores: 1378 1610. @♀ Yel/Ble#176. ③♂ Or/M WHLW#173 from Lower Haystack here with the other birds in granary and sapsucking! 1618. ♂173 now actually working stores in the granary after flying here from the sap tree and being greeted by the others. He lives here. 1623. Hmm. #247 still in granary. Down in one of the perch trees is a ♂, probably #173, and ④♂ DBRW#309, also from L.Haystack. What is going on here, anyway? The other ♂ is ⑤♂ R-W/Red , apparently #171, also a L.Hay bird (using-streamer lost). 1645. ♂309 in storage tree sitting now. The 2♀♀ are in the sap tree. These do in fact seem to be the 5 birds hanging around up here at the moment. Wow! 1648. ♂309 in sap tree sapsucking now. It would appear not unlikely that some catastrophe has befell, the 4♂♂ formerly in this group (2 1st yr). I don't know. In any case, the 2 adults here from Lower Haystack certainly seem at home, as does the first-year bird, though I trust he isn't planning on making this permanent. 18 January 1050. ♂ Or/M (nowS) #171 here with several others; all flushing as I came to switch acorns, 1107. ♂ WHLW#173 came and scolded me briefly as I prepared to go up into the granary. I switched 50 acorns from the granary; adding 25-30 of my own in their stead.