1992 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes Lewis San Antonio Valley, Santa Clara Co. Calif. (30 May) The guy at "The Junction" was the one who told us that The Stoddards are the big land owners here (including The Junction, apparently). [The Y ranch is just a small inholding.] He seemed to feel that bird watchers were just a short step above horse thieves as well. In any case, we got all the babies back by 1600. Mark had the inspiration to paint their crowns to look like Acorn Woodpeckers using lots of white-out and an orange paint marker. They ended up eerily like Al when they were done. We then did the best we could to divey them up, and got all in by dark- except those waited for CV Orange, which we did the next morning. The final distribution was as follows: Plaque 2 (1 killed!) Refute 1 Gazebo 2 CV Orange 3 CVI 1 MPHF 1 Murf 1 (the runt of one of the litters) School Hill 1 We'll see what happens! Keep your fingers crossed! June Banding Plaque, Gazebo, CVI, & SHill today. All OK except for Plaque, where they had killed 1 of the LW plus one of their own babies! (see MTS notes for details).