Colaptes auratus cafer x auratus

So after all the snow passed through yesterday, we ended up with 7 very wet inches of snow. All the trees and shrubs were a winter wonderland for a few hours in the morning, before everything mostly melted away by afternoon. This Northern Flicker, an intra-specific hybrid between the Yellow-Shafted and Red-Shafted subspecies of Northern Flicker, has become a regular visitor to the back yard. Here, he's looking for a place to land and dig up seed covered by the snow.