1979 Walter D. Koenig Melanerpes formicivorus Road 1 Hastings Reservation 5 May 630. Watching. Still lots of activity here. ①♀ Q08-Wn(n)/Or #444 preening in granary. ②♀ Bown(n)/Wn#269. Looks like these 2 ②♀ are here for good. 640. ②♀ are actively greeting each other. They are the only birds here in the granary regularly; others are in the vicinity. 650. ③♂ Wn-Red/Da#222 and ④♂ Turm-or #486; one of them again displayed one of the ②♀ (444?). ⑤♂ Or/Blu-Wn#294. 655. ♂486 is displacing ♀444. 705. The ③♂, it appears, are spending much of their time in the forest above the granary (roughly in the direction of Valhalla). I don't know what the attraction is up there, however. 706. ⑥♀ Rub in the VO up above the granary (still-♀Rub seen here 2 days ago also). There is also apparently additional activity somewhere up above Valhalla somewhere. 712. The unbanded ♀ is sapsucking in the tree up here. She seems to be pretty much on her own. She keeps hamit irg and displaying, but few other birds are landing here or staying any length of time. 715. Leaving. 6 May 1400. Several birds are by the sycamores along the creek where the holes are. 1415. ①♀ My Wn-Dr #269. ♂ here also. ♀ showing interest in the holes here. ②♀444 here also. 1430. ♀444 investigating the same hole now. 11 May 955. At least 2 birds, including a ♀, in the sycamore hole area. However- note that ♀269 is down at R3 (see R3 notes!) 15 May 1415. At the lip of a hole in the sycamore is ♀269 - inside is a 2nd♀, but at that point Billy Clowdrove by and I missed who it was. something!