A woodpecker hitches a ride...

[brooklynite]

[caroldansen]

1. Thats really cute.

[democratisphere]

2. Knows enough to get in out the rain and hitch a dry ride.

Cute beautiful bird.
Thank you for this!

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. yellow bellied sapsucker! great bird!

[Towlie]

4. Remarkable bird, beautiful plumage.

[WinkyDink]

12. Not a Downy woodpecker?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. So who's driving while all this is going on? NT

[brooklynite]

6. Yes, that was my thought as well

[haele]

7. Looks young.

Might have had a bit of a fight with one of Chicago's many high rise windows.

Haele

[Rhiannon12866]

10. That crossed my mind, too

One of the traumas of my childhood was when a really beautiful bird flew into the large front window of our house and died. That was a Flicker, still makes me sad to think about it, and this lovely little guy looks much like him. I would have liked to know what happened after the video stopped...

[Cooley Hurd]

8. If Walter Lantz taught me anything...

...it would be that the video shouldn't have ended as well as it did.

Awesome video!

[denbot]

9. I hope that young one got a tub of meal worms and a ride to the western suburbs..

I don't think that it would have done that unless; It was sick or injured, or it was fed by people early in it's life, and was very hungry.

[sl8]

11. Original (?), slightly longer version:

Uploader: "... After he joined me in the car, I got out and walked to the sidewalk so he wouldn't get run over.
He simply flew away off my jacket into the sky.