Bird Identification: CLOSED: Got some wood pecker shots, IDS please, 1 by CascadeMom

CascadeMom wrote:
My favorite woodpecker story... and IT'S TRUE!

I have a feeder just outside my office window.
One day I saw a very strange woodpecker ; totally black with a dash of red behind the head and some white along its wings. I looked in every book and every website and just could NOT figure out what it was!!?? I thought I had a new species or a mutation !!


Several weeks went by and I saw the bird several times, each time inspecting every detail to give me a hint.





Alas .....after a nice rainy day the culprit was exposed!
He had been working in a burned forest area so the black on his face was ASH! ;)