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22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Amongst a Burnt Sunrise

A Black-Backed Woodpecker parent shows it's young one how to forage through the trees of a burnt down forest for grub. As the sun rose through the gaps in the burnt down forest, the light rays bent around the juvenile.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 07.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2024
Photo Location: Huntington Lake, California, United States of America
Camera: DC-S1R
Copyright: © Jeremy Neipp