MR. WOODPECKER

MISTER WOODPECKER

O  Mister Woodpecker,  

      Mister Woodpecker,       

What is your purpose  in life...

      What is your claim to fame?

     
   



















Drawing by K.M.

You don't sing like a canary...

    You don't mock like a mockingbird...

You don't run like a blue quail.

        nor hide like a Bob White,

Nor soar like an eagle, swim like a duck..

     or fly by at 70 mph like a Teal...

You don't dive in the sea for your dinner,

    like a Blue Footed Booby

Nor waddle and strut, dressed up

   like a Penguin...

In the spring you don't hop lawns

   looking for worms,

Or soar like vultures seeking carrion...

   You don't hang out in big groups,

like the little-flitting-nervous Bush Tits...

You don't air your troubles, quarrels,

   vicissitudes  noisily from the very 

tops of the pine trees with your

     female birds, like the Blue Jays do...

You don't spend your life

   just settin' on a still backwater

pond somewhere, never amounting 

   to anything, flying a few feet 

now and then ....as  a Mud Hen

We've never heard you "cocka-

    doodle-do"... or "PUCK-PUCK."

And there are thousands of species

    of birds...and we can't compare 

them all here...so we set out 

   to study you...and found---

      YOU are a magnificently and

          carefully invented and 

             engineered creation!!

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Just to name some random facts

   about Woodpeckers...

WP are from the PICADAE family.

They have neck and shoulder muscles 

that would make a weight-lifter jealous.

They peck for food in trees, enjoying

the insect eggs and larvae. They don't

eat the wood.

They can peck at the unbelievable 

speeds of up to 22 pecks per second,

90,000 a day. Their beaks get hot

and they rest and cool them, between

short pecks.

Protecting their eyes and brains from

the heat and the jarring rhythms of 

pecking, they have numerous layered

membranes wrapped around inside 

their heads, said to be better than any

football helmets.

"Their tongues and lips wrap around 

their skulls ," whatever that means.

Their nostrils are special narrow slots,

designed to repel saw dust.

Say they get caught pecking while

a storm is coming up, they go ahead 

and peck out a home for themselves

and may live in it for awhile, right

in the tree.

You will never see a photo of a 

woodpecker in action that his 

feathered-tail is not resting

on the tree trunk. This. is for 

balance ,leverage, and strength.

Hearing the BRRTTTT...BRRTTTT...

down a residential street early

on a cool spring morning, sounds

like some company is building 

something in the neighborhood.

Whoever designed this clever and 

unusual bird, knew what He was 

doing. Did the Creator have help

from an Angel Committee in planning 

this  fantastic bird...and which eon

of Creation was it?

Next time we hear a Woodpecker at

work, let is thank the Creator for:

    "All things bright and beautiful,

        All things great and small

         Our Father made them all. "--------

MIL
17 MARCH  2020