This colourful bird is the green woodpecker, the largest of our three UK woodpecker species (who knows the other two?). Look out for them searching for their favourite food – ants! – on the ground, and listen for their laughing call, or 'yaffle', in woodlands and parks. They tend to be particularly noisy during January and February as they gear up for breeding season. 'Yaffle' is also an English folk name for the bird itself. Other names include yappingale, Jack Eikle and wet bird! | Cumbria Wil