The Red-bellied Woodpecker,
Melanerpes carolinus, is a pretty common woodpecker throughout the region. I have a hard time catching them at a decent angle since they are usually high up in one of our pine trees, but this one happened to pose for me in a maple tree only about 30 feet up. This one is a male, differentiated from the female by the red going over the top of his head, where the female just has red on the nape of the neck. The name is derived from a faint red belly, but it is often so faint as to seem white or ivory colored.
