On 17 July 1971 Alfred T. Driscoll and his son found a Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) in a row of Eucalyptus trees on the Wister Fish and Game Wildlife Management Area northwest of Niland, Imperial County, California. On 31 July the Driscolls again observed the bird in the same row of trees, this time taking several identifiable pictures, and on 7 August the authors, accompanied by their sons and several others, again observed the woodpecker in the same area. This time Steven Cardiff obtained several photographs using a 500 mm. lens and Kodachrome II film (Figure 1).