Shadows on the stream - again

Playing with the light reflecting off of a late summer slow-flowing creek is the theme of today’s first two images. This is about three inches of water; the small dark spots in groups of four together are depressions of the surface water from little long-legged bugs (water-spiders?).

A female downy woodpecker is caught in the sunlight just outside the front door (third image). This identification only comes after referring to my handy, reliable Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies; the female hairy woodpecker looks essentially the same but the short beak distinguishes the downy (indeed, Peterson calls the downy just a smaller version of the hairy).