1979 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes fomiceivorus Plague (14 March) is that #482 may not yet have gone all the way and is probably still roosting at Buckeye. 15 March 1800. 2 birds here; ♀CB/#482 on the added storage limb getting some goodies. 25 March 1310. ♀CB/wn-2ct #482 in Plague tree. Later Ron saw both #482 and the ♂ (♂473). 1 April 900. Both #482 and 8473 here. Also lots of Karit-cuts and the like possibly denoting intruders? 920. After quite a to-do here I went out and did see a 3rd bird get displaced from the 2nd tree. She flew up to the top of the Sycamores and turned out to be a ♂ub. 2 April 1730. Added another 55 acorns to the few they had left in the stub that I gave them. 10 April Added another 60 acorns. 12 April 830. ♀M/LB #482 seen here. 13 April 1230. PLW reports: 2 AW in Blue Oak by labs (next to labs). Lots of noise Nuttall's Woodpecker very upset there. Next: AW chasing the NW, followed by ♀AW looking into a hole in the tree. Hole is clearly shallow and unfinished; bird is throwing out woodchips. ♀AW moved away from hole (bothered by my presence?). NW moved back- to the hole slowly, got near and then was chased by the 2 AW again (away from the hole but not out of the tree). Later I checked the hole - it is new and in one of the rotten limbs (this is the tree they nested in in 1975 and 1976), and is quite small in diameter. Hard to know why the AW would care so much. Whose hole is this, anyway?