1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Lower Haystack Hastings Reservation (4 July) 19 July → Disappeared about 27 March 1976 ± 2 weeks. 845. Watching from "hide." ①♂RRR#236 here. 945. Several birds here w/o: ②♂1971 eating acorn; ③j309; ④j307; ⑤♀172 eating acorns; ⑥♂173; ⑦j310 fed by ♂173; ⑧♀ub; at 1003 most have gone off down into the canyon. 1100. ⑦♀R-w-B/wn#170 feeding j309 acorns. 1125. Several birds back finally; j309 is getting the shit beat out of him by ♂173 at a snag where he and j307 were making [illegible] nuisances of themselves. 1128. j309 pecked at and tore off j307 while begging at ♂236. 1145. Enough of this. I'm going to jaunt down the canyon to see if I can find out what they're doing there. ✓ 28 July 20 August Counted stores: 487. j310 in telephone pole when I arrived. Heard lots of calling over here while at H-Blom. 1300. Began watching. Birds are all over, except there is not much activity on the knoll. Apparently, however, the reason is merely the activity involved in hawking, which is primarily what they seem to be doing; I saw no chases at least up to 1330. I did see all 4 juveniles (307-310), ②236, ⑥♀ub, ④♀170. [It occurs to me to mention that the right tarsus of the ♂ub was slightly swollen and quite yellowish, the same characters noted in the ♂ub ♀ here since the spring of 1975]. 1340. ⑧♂LBRW and ④♂WLLW here now also. Still lots of waking, hawking, but no chasing. 1345. Everyone's still hawking feverishly; jwus are hawking and doing some begging from hawking adults. A ♂ with no wing-streamer