1978 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Haystack (25 September) Hastings Reservation leg!! She is here amicably with 8307, and clearly belongs here. I hesitate to say what this means, but this bird is almost surely old 8525 "Yellowish Right Leg" who I wrote off quite a while ago. It also means that this group most likely wasn't composed entirely of old nestlings, that the breeding & this spring may not have been 8170, and also that this unbanded ♀, if the mother, never attended the nest at all! (Note that she does have a hard time even standing on a nearly horizontal limb). 845. I've only seen 8307 bring 1 or 2 acorns in so far. 856. False Alarm! I finally got a look at this bird's left leg and she is, I fear, ⚪♀ Pink-w/n-Blue/w/n#170 after all. I guess the right leg suddenly hooked onto the metal band. Arg. 900. ⚪♂ Dr-Blk/M#390. 910. Leaving. Activity is none too impressive here, though 8307 is indeed doing some storing. I have no idea where any of the babies are hanging out; I'll have to come back again later and try for them. Counted stores: 925 (all in main tree); verging on ½ new. 14 October Ron watched here this morning seeing only those 2♂s again (8307, 8390). They both were hawking, and there was little sign of any storing behavior. 4 November 1010. Watching. 1025. ⚪♂♂ Yellow-Red/Blue#390 here, hawking. All quiet. 1030. A 2nd♂ briefly: ♂M/ probably 8307.