1981 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes fomiceivorus Plague Hastings Reservation 13 January 1000. Counted stores: Plague: 1392 } 2° tree: 123 } 1615. Tel pole: ~200 Things are still pretty full here (I did include a limb that I just discovered a few weeks ago with ~100 acorns). I also took a sample of ~50 acorns from the granary and replaced them with others. 29 March Purge: 9606. Last seen by Ron 23 Jan; gone by 2 March-> Disappeared about 11 Feb 1981 ± 2 wks. 4 April 1343. Counted stores: Plague: 964 } 2° tree: 73 } 857 Tel pole: ~20 (pretty well cleaned out) Definitely going down. This even includes ~100 acorns in a high limb up in the Plague tree that I'm not sure I've noticed before. 14 April A big day for Plague. It begins sometime after lunch when Ron checked the Canyon Hole (=CH) and found 1 egg! He marked it, measured it, and returned it, and instigated a full-scale watch, which turned out to show nothing all day. However, shortly after this find Byron, watching down at the main lab area, discovers 9496 pecking at what turns out to be a completely-eaten out shell of an Acom W. eggs, identical in size to the one still up in the nest, up in the 2° tree (just on one of the limbs). We recovered the eggshell and mulled over the various possibilities, not forgetting Byron's (at the