1995 Walter D Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus, Plague H.N.H.R. 3 February 1730. Finally got to count acorns, and there are indeed an amazing number here! I counted: Plague tree 5020 ? 5525. 2° tree, tel pole 505 The trees are loaded; given that it was getting dark, I bet there are even more here. Among other things there is an entire limb of the Plague tree with holes I never noticed before! 9 May 1130. Opened both holes (the lower one is new) over by the Upper Barn - both are empty. 12 May 1230. Checked the 2 holes again: still both empty. 15 June 1700. Saw 4 birds: 882056, 2428, 2429, & 2430. 19 October 1400. Watching with Eric. Saw 8? DB-w/n(n)/LP? ??#278 ②♂-w(n)/♀-w(n) ? New immigrants here, finally, along with a fair amount of activity. ③♂ M / wn-DB ?#2563 ④♂-DB / M ?#278. busy storing No new ♂ after all (?) What about the ♀♀? 2 December 1700. I was sitting under the Plague tree with the BBC photographer (Keith) when all of a sudden we heard a miner ruckus and out zipped a hawk with a screaming Acorn Woodpecker in its talons! It zipped over by the Upper Barn where we chased it, scaring it off the ground and up into the forest (with the woodpecker screaming again as soon as the hawk got up off the ground). Unfortunately we then lost it. The hawk was almost certainly a Cooper's, but I Bird was taken right out from the center of the Plague tree!