The Great Spotted Woodpecker is the most common woodpecker in Britain. In parts of the country, here in Wigan included, great ...

The sight of tiny sparrows fluttering between the branches of a hedge is a quintessential part of a walk in the countryside. Just as the repetitive “tap-tap-tap” of the woodpecker, the ...

The most common is the great spotted woodpecker. Its loud drumming ... noisy young with the eventual average of just over one per nest probably not enough to sustain the population.