Recent cold temperatures and a few snowfalls have let us know again that we are still immersed in winter. The frozen ground goes deep enough to cause water and septic problems for many Northlanders.

Songbirds fill the air with wondrous melodies, while woodpeckers fill the air with rhythmic drumbeats. A woodpecker’s drumming is like a songbird’s singing, and both sounds are essential to springtime ...

Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from Arkansas of possible calls and drumming by one or more ivory-billed woodpeckers. The release will fuel a new round in the ...

Putting on its brakes as it comes in for a landing to its nest in an aspen tree in the Ahtanum Creek forest, this pileated woodpecker is bringing food to its hungry youngster. That young’un needs its ...

The day after Thanksgiving, I discovered what fungi, time, the elements and a pileated woodpecker could do to a red maple stump. The stump was in the backyard of the home of my brother Willie, his ...