1976 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Gate Hastings Reservation (13 June) case, following which he possibly drilled into it. 1815. Things are pretty quiet here now. No birds in sight. 1825. Birds back, for on near the gate itself. I continued to chase around here to 1900; at that time several birds were again up the side of School Hill, but they all seemed interested in obtaining food one way or another and not in attending a nest anywhere. 1905. (D^8 BP-w) M #258 up on side of School Hill. Birds are drilling, pulling at oak leaves (?), and bark gleaning. 1905. leaving. 15 June 1130. Several birds in and around the holes in the gate sycamore. Nothing more definite; birds probably merely thermoregulating. 16 June 1730. Most or all of the group was flushed from the Live Oak next to the creek where they are presumably sap-sucking. Nobody in the holes. A ♀ and [illegible] ♂ RRL #238 seen. 23 June [illegible] 1945. Birds here were just up along the road # toward R1 a ways, flushing up the side of the Arnold. Later several came to the storage/sap area. 2000. 8238 and a 2nd ♂ in a Live Oak up in the midst of the chaparral on Haystack hawkings. Nobody else seen. 27 June 2000. Birds roosting in the 2 sycamores 28 June 1040. ♂ with heavy tail spotting in Gate sycamore. 1730 - 1745. Numerous birds around the Gate Field, most presumably sap-sucking. A ♂ seen. No evidence of any hanky-panky. 14 July [illegible] 1030. Several birds hawkings from the Gate Sycamore. 2 unbanded ♂ here together (!). A ♀ have also; several others over in Gate Field.