啄 - peck, pick up

timing is everything; don't jump the gun

woodpecker

woodpecker

to pick at; to peck at

seventh principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; stroke that falls leftwards with slight curve

once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; golden opportunity

grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus)

Japanese green woodpecker (Picus awokera); Japanese woodpecker; wavy-bellied woodpecker

great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)

northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)