Rata-Tat-Tat

Sitting sipping coffee in the cockpit, rata-tat-tat ... and again, rata-tat-tat.  What kind of noise is THAT?  We look around and notice not one but two woodpeckers pecking away at a mast of a boat on our dock.  David's theory is that there must be bugs that they're tapping away at ... but they were tapping on the aluminum mast as well as what looks to be the spinnaker halyard.  Not sure how reliable that halyard might be after the torture it endured this morning!  

You learn something new every day.  We have never seen woodpeckers pecking away at the top of a mast.  Lots of ospreys, blackbirds, seagulls and other pesky birds, but never woodpeckers!   Weird!