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DARK SECRETS: 5 | Rare Historical Photos

Country diary: A rare plant with a sense of the dramatic

Cromford, Derbyshire: The stinking hellebore is intricate, strange, exquisitely symmetrical – and poisonous. And this patch of them has one hell of a view

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024

Country diary: For the starlings, this is a tale of two cities

Brighton, East Sussex: Their winter murmurations are currently dazzling over the pier, but there is bad news for their feeding grounds

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

Country diary: A new chapter for these old hills

Wolfelee Hill, Scottish Borders: They’ve been used for upland sheep and sitka spruce plantations – now the wind turbines are arriving, as the locals know all too well

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2024

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Country diary: Adding to Britain’s precious stock of hedgerows, one by one

Wellington, Somerset: On the cusp of spring, we’re out and about planting 230 metres of hawthorn, blackthorn, field maple and hazel

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024

Country diary: Low sun cuts across where the pits once were

Bodmin Moor, Cornwall: On a blowy but blue-skied day, we take a walk that brings us long views, prehistoric remains and some sun-loving bullocks

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024

Country diary: These red grouse seem ill-suited for foraging in trees

Wear bank, Wolsingham, Weardale: Portly among the slender branches, they are going to great effort for some wrinkled and wind-dried hawthorn berries

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024

Country diary: Snowdrops tumble down from high curtain walls

Aydon Castle, Northumberland: On our woodland walk to this fortified manor house, we see wild garlic spearing through the leaf litter, buds of golden saxifrage, lesser celandine gleaming along the bank

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

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Country diary: Like a twilight magic trick, a woodcock bursts into the sky

Stanage, Derbyshire: At this time of day, the moorland can seem otherworldly, and full of the unseen

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

Country diary: Somewhere in the stillness, a bittern lurks

Y Trallwng, Powys: Patience and quietude are your friends if you are to see – or hear –one of these rebounding reed-dwellers

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024

Country diary: This chalky old city gets under your boots

Winchester, Hampshire: This is a familiar haunt to me, a place of protest, hill-walking, and views over the River Itchen

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2024

Country diary: The creaking song of the siskin unfurls in the cold air

Calver Weir, Derbyshire: Quite how many there are in the bare alders is hard to tell, but to hear them is pleasure enough

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024

Country diary: To visit a fairy fort is a step back in time

Drumkeen, County Fermanagh: This area is peppered with medieval fort remains; this rather modest one I’ve known for many years

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

Country diary: Bringing the hills to our home

Tebay, Cumbria: This old farmstead has taken many forms over hundreds of years. Now, as part of our renovations, we’re connecting it to the local area in every way we can

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

Country diary: The unsung groundsel has been flowering all winter

Quarryheads Lane, Durham: This patch carried with it a fungus that, under a microscope, revealed an exquisite beauty

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024

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Country diary: Out with the salmon, in with the bullheads

Horner, Somerset: These mottled brown fish can be tricky to spot, lurking as they often do under stones and bridges for safety

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024

Country diary: A fine time to admire fancy wildfowl

Stromness, Orkney: The raffish mergansers are here, as are the long-tailed ducks wintering from the Arctic tundra

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Country diary: After the storm, into the woods

Pressmennan Wood, East Lothian: It’s a tempestuous period – the weather is racing across the sky as we search for trees toppled by the winds

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024

Country diary: Why do we stare at bare winter trees?

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: It’s a short, effortful pilgrimage for me to reach the old lime tree and cracked white birch, but it’s worth it every time

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The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024

Young country diary: Smashing the frozen river so the animals can drink

New Forest, Hampshire: We saw no signs of life today at all, but the ice turned everything into a whole new world

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2024

Young country diary: My excellent fungal find – the winter mushroom

West Yorkshire: On a freezing day we went to the woods, where I found a cluster a mushrooms that reminded me of Alice in Wonderland

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024

Country diary: A rare sighting, glimpsed through the steam of my coffee

Langstone, Hampshire: Thanks to the remnants of Christmas (abandoned tree, leftover chestnuts), my garden sightings are little more unusual this January

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024

Country diary: A legend survived by strange plants and 1960s semis

The Marches, Shropshire: The medieval Battle of Maserfield is marked by a sacred well, across which grows a skin of liverworts, some of the hardiest flora of all

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2024

Country diary: One hour in one urban location, but nearly 100 species

Brighton, East Sussex: This nature reserve is nurturing both for nature, and for the young people learning about conservation here

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

Country diary: This tree is a multiple, feeding on itself

Dartington, Devon: These are two yews of very different character, but the older, more gnarly one seems to be sustaining both death and life

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2024

Country diary: The satnav sacrifice – villages like this are no longer so tranquil

Little Barford, Bedfordshire: Virtually everyone who drives is thankful to technology for helping us to dodge traffic. Those who suffer the consequences might feel differently

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