1982 1983 Welter D. Koenig Melanerpes fomivicivorus Bianca Hastings Reservation 2 September 1900. Came up to watch roosting but neither saw nor heard anything. Is there really still a group here? 3 November 1500. Scrounging around, I managed to come up with !!! stored acorns here. Not too impressive; there are several unused areas around. 1983 11 February 1300. Up here to count stores. On the Knoll is 8DB/1B-4kt, apparently 6732 - one of the babies at Saturn last spring. This does not bode well for the group here, however. There are a few stores left here: about 30, but basically things appear fairly abandoned up here. Among other things, the large limb in the Black Oak with their last known roost hole has fallen. I would not be too surprised if this territory were currently unoccupied, except perhaps for some scouts (8732) from across South Ranine. 11 March Ron assures me there are 2 birds here, and pointed out a modest granary down slightly on the saddle that I didn't know about. At this point it still has ~150 acorns in it, so they aren't out, at least. 12 June 900. There are a very few stored acorns left - ~10, but not really enough to save this group from being functionally out.