Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

I awaken to the bumble, rumble, scraping of the town plow along the road as it tosses the accumulated snow onto the rising verges of road drift. As the plow moves away, the world becomes snow-silent.

The wryneck, an elusive member of the woodpecker family, was photographed by Northern Echo Camera Club member Paul Gale at ...