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Some Disappointment Here
This is a juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius), I came up on the bird during my morning walk with Ben and Charlie. I should have been able to get a better image, but c'est la vie. I approached the tree, trying to get an angle on the woodpecker, but the darn bird kept moving the opposite side of the tree. Most of the photos that I did get were the back of the bird, The woodpecker blends quite well with the tree.
"On a walk through the forest you might spot rows of shallow holes in tree bark. In the East, this is the work of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, an enterprising woodpecker that laps up the leaking sap and any trapped insects with its specialized, brush-tipped tongue." - allaboutbirds.org
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@Swede1952 That's birds for you! I find that putting myself behind a branch or tree actually helps a lot 
. Very cool bird though - we don't have anything like it here.
They are interesting birds, the adults have some brighter colors.