woodpecker sighting!

so i’ve been hearing lots of woodpeckers lately–while i’m out running or in the woods camping, etc.–but i’ve never been able to see them. today, i was enjoying a particularly leisurely lunch on my front patio, reading a magazine, when i heard tentative hollow knocking noises. they kept going, so i finally got up and went over to gaze at the tree that seemed to be the source of the noise. sure enough, i finally saw a woodpecker! he was searching for bugs instead of drilling for bugs, so he kept hopping all over the trunk, pecking here and there like me trying to find the studs in a wall. cool.