Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

They are small, brown and fearless. When a fat, red-orange-headed woodpecker (called a red-bellied woodpecker, even though the belly is white) poked its beak into the wren house, the female ...

(See "Weasel Rides Woodpecker in Viral Photo—But Is ... It sits at an angle toward the back of its head, like a half orange with the flat side facing the front. That creates more surface area ...