It’s New Year’s Day and I’m bored. The nature preserve I usually go to is closed, but there’s one that usually isn’t very interesting and it’s open every day. Thankfully, there is exactly one woodpecker flitting around, and I follow the damn thing. When it starts hitting a branch from below in midflight, I’m in my happy place hoping the photos come out, and I sure enough got a good one. I liked how there are little bits of bark flying off to the right.

January 1, 2020. Cropped from a larger image. Nikon D7100 (DX sensor), Tamron 100–400mm lens at 400mm (35mm equivalent: 600mm), f/6.7, 1/2,000, ISO 560.