NPS | N. Lewis
A male Downy woodpecker basks in the glow of a maple turned gold by the cooler fall temperatures. (K0A9700)
Date 29 October 2015, 11:52
Source Basking the the Glow...
Author Shenandoah National Park from Virginia
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picoides_pubescens_male,_Shenandoah_National_Park,_Virginia.jpg

The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens syn. Picoides pubescens) is a species of woodpecker in North America. Adult downy woodpeckers are the smallest of North American woodpeckers.
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Dryobates
Species: Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms: Picoides pubescens