Cogswell 1949 Dryocopus pileatus 2 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 27 (cont.) Its position when drumming was at quite an angle with the vertical: apparently it did not want to, or could not, cling to the wood in the narrow scar; but the wood there was resonant & produced a loud, hollow sounding drumming. There were several such scarred Ten Oaks in the vicinity, and just up slope from them, a slash area with many felled madrone trees & some dead snags. It was on the latter that the woodpeckers were first seen. Finally, I climbed onto a large, firm Douglas Fir stump & stamped my heel several times on it. The 7 woodpecker left his drumming post immediately & flew m. o' digits on the opposite side of the trunk of a nearby tree. I stamped again & he flew to a still closer dead snag; but apparently recognizing me then as dangerous, he flew back toward the drum-ming site landing on a Douglas Fir trunk. I collected him at this point. He gave a shrill, but weak, scream as the shot hit him. Aug. 28 Sep. 5 Calls of this species were heard daily from our camp near this area. 2 individuals called back & forth repeatedly on Sep. 2 - 3. Sep. 1 Brannan Ints., c. 3000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - ! heard.