188 / 365 I Hear You Knockin’

Listening to a woodpecker tapping away outside in the backyard made me think of this skeleton that H and I recently saw at the Museum of Natural History in Washington.  Is this not the coolest thing!?  I could have stared at it for hours.  The head and beak are huge compared to the rest of the bones, and the neck doesn’t look strong enough to hold it all together.  I guess you have to have something really massive to handle all that tree-pecking (or, in our case, the metal rim around the chimney on our house).