Suddenly our driver/guide stopped, in the middle of Los Angeles, and excitedly pointed to a tree nearby - a Nuttall's woodpecker! I got my camera and tripod in a hurry and stood on a paved sidewalk and photographed this (for me) new species of woodpecker. The Nuttall's woodpecker occurs only here in California and a small area in northernmost Baja California. It feeds mainly on larvae that it finds on various trees, but supplements with tree sap and seeds. Both sexes are black and white with watered backs, spotted breasts and characteristic markings on the head - but the male, like in many other woodpecker species, has a red head. The bird in the picture is thus a female.