In the woods behind my house, downy woodpeckers raise a ruckus, rattle their staccato calls and drive their beaks like forge hammers, shattering the iron grip of winter.The French call the tiny bird pic mineur (minor woodpecker, but also meaning pick and miner).
Listen to the downy woodpecker at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/Downy_Woodpecker.html).
The photo (from Don Chernoff's DCWild gallery at http://www.dcwild.com/index.htm) shows what my heart feels.
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