This Video Of A Woodpecker Hitching Through Downtown Is Just What We Needed
By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 14, 2017 4:40PM
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If you somehow haven't seen the impossibly charming clip of a woodpecker catching a ride through the streets of downtown Chicago, allow us to make your year.
The clip, posted on Thursday by USA Today's bank of feel-good quick-hit videos Humankind, is just short of two minutes of bliss. In it, the little bird hangs onto the windowsill of a moving car as it navigates through the Loop (note the Picasso in the background at one point). The driver—who provides some perfectly folksy, kindly-stranger narration—is of course careful to watch his speed as he watches out for his cutest hitchhiker.
We won't spoil the perfect ending.
This woodpecker got mighty cozy while hitching a ride through Chicago. Listen to the driver's sweet response. pic.twitter.com/HmjN13Y6fE
— Humankind (@Humankindvideos) April 13, 2017
The clip took off on social media when it was shared again by writer Simon Ricketts. "I cherish little vignettes of joy like that," he wrote.
Amen.