1977 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Bianca Hastings Reservation (14 February) 1045. ♂80r/WN#219. Also ♀♀ #141. 1120.♀ Blue/or#303 sap-sucking up here now. 1200. A quick chase led me to ♀ Yellow/DB-WN(n)#213, who is up in the sap area and apparently getting chased around. 1205. Now ♀213 and ♀303 near each other in corral area. 1210. ♀141, others now in corral area. Several up here now eating oak buds off the branches. 1215. Leaving. It would appear pretty certain that ♀304 is gone for good. Somehow it seems less reasonable that ♀251, an adult, should have disappeared also, but I can find no trace of her either. ♀213 presumably just was wandering back to the home territory for a brief visit. 10 March 1200. Counted stores: Knoll Valley Oak: 0 Main tree: 152 (total holes left = 380) "New" area: 309 Blue Oaks: 230 Old tree: 0 } 691 13 April 1430. Counted stores: Main tree. 123 New area: 273 Blue oaks: 268 } 664 Sitting around daydreaming, Ms. Bianca (#140) came into view in the Old tree. 17 April ♂217 seen at Black Oak. 18 April 1145. Holes checked; none in any. One furtive ♀ was seen in the area and after a few minutes was getting silently chased by another bird by the main granary. A further bird was flushed from the upper area near the old corral.