Pileated woodpeckers – those crow-sized birds with flaming red crests that inspired the Woody Woodpecker cartoon – hammer away at dead trees, leaving distinctive rectangular holes as evidence of their ...

Walt Cunningham of Birmingham didn’t need very long to hook and catch five crappie within casting range of Logan Martin Lake.

Fly fishing Amber Lake is open until Nov. 30 with a limit of one trout 18 inches or larger, and it should provide good fishing right to the end. Dark-colored wooly buggers are doing well. By late ...