Can you spot the Workman Author at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

Spotted! 10-Minute Puppets author Noel MacNeal on the Sesame Street parade float! What, you don’t see him?

Here, I’ll give you a hint: He’s hiding inside an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow bird. Now do you see him?

Noel MacNeal is a regular Muppet and Sesame Street performer, and this Thanksgiving he scored the awesome gig of being Big Bird on the Sesame Street float! Says Noel: “Turkey Day was great. Got to be a big bird before eating a big bird!”

Here’s Noel, outside the Bird but still in the nest, with fellow Sesame Street character Abby Cadabby and her puppeteer, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph.

And here’s his book, with a hue to rival those yellow feathers, and a quote on the cover from the puppeteer who created Big Bird!

Photos by Alan Muraoka