Bill, it looks like a pretty straightforward sapsucker to me, but I am far 
from expert.
I can't get a good picture for you in the near future. My digital camera
and scope are both too low-end for digiscoping, and I don't have film in my
"real" camera. I will try to get a picture over the weekend. It was at the 
suet feeder
on Sunday afternoon. (I'm not home much of the week while it's daylight 
these days.)

You suspect my bird is a hybrid of some kind? Maybe a hairy 
woodpecker-sapsucker cross?

At 07:06 AM 11/30/2004, you wrote:
>Pat:
>
>Does your sapsucker have any other markings that (like the black
>cap) might reveal another species in its ancestry?
>
>Bill Ellis
>Eldersburg
>Carroll County
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maryland Birds & Birding On Behalf Of Patricia Valdata
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 4:10 PM
>Subject: [MDOSPREY] color-morph sapsucker
>
>... a "black capped" yellow-bellied sapsucker
>is coming to our suet feeder again. ...

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato