Adult male Picoides nuttallii. "A small woodpecker confined primarily to the oak woodlands of California." — Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Nuttalls_Woodpecker/id.
You can listen to the "Typical Voice" of Nuttall's Woodpecker there, too.
When this guy started pecking at the tree over my head where I was sitting in the back yard, I thought at first that he was an Acorn Woodpecker. We see them pretty often. The white markings on his back gave him away, though. Now that I look at the images online, the Acorn and Nuttall's don't look very much alike: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Acorn_Woodpecker/id.
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