As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has ...

Not many gardeners realise that woodpeckers are really useful to have in your garden, and there is a really easy way to get them to flock to a birdfeeder.

Our region’s woodpeckers may be simultaneously praised for their biological control of grubs and other insect pests yet maligned for perceived or actual damage that they cause to trees and various man ...