Downey Woodpecker

This guy usually gets started around 430 every morning and lives on the next block to the north of us. Recently though he has found his way onto our patio. They normally feast on the insects they find as they dig into their trees, but they also love dried fruits and nuts(which is why this guy has began visiting us daily). They are so beautiful, especially when their winter coats are shed and replaced with the trademark black and white bodies with the males have the little tuft of red feathers on the head. They are the smallest of all wood peckers in the Americas.