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Country diary: An ancient site of discovery and disorientation

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire: Much is elusive about these three groups of stones, including, it seems, time itself

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Country diary: Even castles can look reduced in the drama of this landscape

Harlech, Gwynedd: The sky is a grey dome today and the great hills of Llyn Peninsula have been half-disappeared by mist and cloud

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Country diary: The air carries the faint fragrance of spring awakening

River Itchen, Eastleigh, Hampshire: As we take our monthly swim, goat willows dip towards the water, and red-tailed bumblebees ping-pong between daffodils

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Country diary: Fresh primroses and the first bluebells

St Dominic, Tamar Valley, Cornwall: Rainstorms have been dominant here, but flowers are emerging through the ferns and leaf mould

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Country diary: A slow and private journey to bearing new life

Woodbury Hall, Bedfordshire: Of the many cattle here, one has taken herself off with her great barrel of a belly, to find a little solitude, if not rest

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Country diary: The empty lake proved to be anything but

Ballachrink, Isle of Man: My monthly bird survey started so slowly that I nearly gave up – I would have missed a ‘first’ for this site if I had

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Country diary: A little miracle by my feet – a four-leaf clover

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: On a day spent picking horse poo from the pasture, I welcome this Celtic charm

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Country diary: Winner and losers at the lowered reservoir

Tunstall Valley, Weardale: Where greylag geese normally swim in 10ft-deep water, chaffinches are pecking among the green shoots. What exactly is happening?

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Country diary: This wee park is a suburban underdog

Pollokshields, Glasgow: Springtime is moving in at this wonderful suburban green space, with long-tailed tits, copious lime trees and calling buzzards

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Country diary: The fields are alive with the sound of waders

Allendale, Northumberland: The valley is suddenly active – it’s reassuring to find oystercatchers, curlews, golden plovers and peewits where they should be

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Country diary: Breeding buzzards in a stylish, choreographed dance

Abbeydale, Sheffield: They follow each other’s moves as though they’ve been practising this for years – which is quite possible

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Country diary: Back by poplar demand – this simple stick carries our high hopes

Gosmore, Hitchin, Hertfordshire: There are very few black poplars around, and we lost a notable one in storms last year. Then came this ostensibly dead cutting

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Country diary: Seasons are changing as the Mersey slides by

Speke and Garston Coastal Reserve, Liverpool: The willows are upright and leafless, but still I hear my first greenfinch of the year

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Country diary: Myth and inspiration spring forth from this spot

Glenthorne, Devon: Many before me have passed this lush spot with its marble-basin fountain – the cross is a clue to one particular passerby, according to folklore

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Country diary: The sound of water, up in the trees

Inkpen, Berkshire: The winter thrushes – fieldfare and redwing – have been the backdrop to the winter, but now they are preparing to leave

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Country diary: Predator or prey? The electric redshank is both in equal measure

Spurn Point, Humberside: Alarm tends to be their default position, but watching them at work on the rain-soaked turf reveals their ruthless streak

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Country diary: Relentless rain – but a day of farming collaboration

Keswick, Cumbria: We visited a farm to find out how it has been working successfully with nature, complementing its livestock with ponds and edible hedgerows

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Country diary: The plovers peck and the sandpipers probe

Tyrella Beach, Co Down: The tide is out, and so are the waders, all magnificently modified and finessed from their common ancestor

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Country diary: Watching the divers’ disappearing act

Blyth, Northumberland: In front of a wind-turbine backdrop, they take it in turns to plunge into the depths of the North Sea – and emerge some distance away

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Country diary: The outlook is good for this year’s cherry plum jam

Willington, County Durham: This non-native early bloomer is already flaunting its spring bling – perhaps Britain should have more of it

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Country diary: This quarry will once again become the land of the living

Sandy, Bedfordshire: When the ravines and valleys are all carved out, the drumlins and folds created, something miraculous will begin to happen

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Country diary: Treasured gifts keep falling from the skies

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: As breeding season begins in the unseasonably mild weather, I’m transfixed by a local find – a meteorite

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Country diary: We’re out on toad patrol with bucket and torch

Stansted Park, West Sussex: The UK loses around 250,000 toads to vehicles every year – so we’re out in the drizzle trying to make a small dent on those numbers

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Country diary: A horned sheep, caught beneath a ‘kink’

The Marches, Shropshire: The sheep struggles, trapped in a fence wire. I try to separate one from the other

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Country diary: Caught in a web of late winter branches

Kew Gardens, London: Before these wonderful trees are graced once more with spring leaves, we must appreciate their shadow portraits

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