1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Haystack-Blomquist Hastings Reservation (5 February) arrived, however. 18 February 1445. Stopped and picked out ♂OrW#246 and ♀YRW#178 (not seen last month) down the slope a ways in one of the perch trees on Blomquist's. I watched for a few more minutes but saw nobody else (the birds were not in their storage or sap area) and moved on. 9 March 1400. 24 birds were in the vicinity of the sap tree; I saw both flycatching and some sapsucking taking place. The storage tree also still has acorns. Seen were (1)♀247, (2)♂OrW#246, and (3)j♀Yel/Blk#176; also (4)♂ub#329 sapsucking for sure. 17 March 1000. A heavily tail-spotted ♀, flycatching from the '75 nest tree here, flushed down apparently to, but at least toward, 1800. 1015. At H-B itself, an unbanded ♀ (of which there isn't a representative in the group) was flycatching in the trees near the storage tree, then flew down to the perch tree below and North of the storage tree where at least 3 other birds were sitting, including (1)♂OrW#246 and (2)♂ub 329. After losing the ♀ while checking out the other birds, several of them flew out and closer to me. One, [illegible] (2)♀Wh-DP/Dr#217, flew to the sap tree. Another flew to the area somewhat below the sap tree and sat in the canopy eating the buds for several minutes before flying over to the sap tree. It turned out to be a ♀ again, but was immediately chased by ♂246 when she landed in the sap tree, and flew off toward lower Haystack with nothing other- than a Violet green Swallow on her tail, who took up the chase as soon as the resident ♀ left it.