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Country diary: High in the treetops, a winter feast

Deerness Valley, County Durham: Sitka plantations are perhaps understandably unloved, but this one has produced a magnificent cone crop that’s going down well with the locals

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2024

Country diary: A drowned land in plain sight

Rhyl, Denbighshire: On the popular beach here, within earshot of the amusement arcades, we visit a 6,000-year-old submerged forest

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024

Country diary: Walking the familiar lanes of my childhood

Lynher Valley, east Cornwall: They wind downhill, near to where we visited our paternal grandfather, hedge-banks dripping with moss, pennywort and ferns

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024

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Country diary: Nothing moves far at the escargatoire

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: These clusters of snails – in this case, the garden variety – will stay stuck to the sheltered side of a tree until spring. But many are not safe from predation

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024

Country diary: A liquid landscape with a magnetic draw

Ouse Washes, the Fens: This vast area of flooded grassland defies clean definition, yet nature, and nature-watchers, keep coming back

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Country diary: Leeches are sinister, insatiable – and more common than you’d think

Llandrindod Wells, Powys: This one crawled up a lakeside bank with its looping gait, only to be dispatched by a herring gull

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024

Country diary: Winter on the farm isn’t meant to be like this

Long Dean, Cotswolds: It’s been so mild that we still have midges, and so rainy that the ground is bubbling with water in places

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2024

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Country diary: Parakeets on my feeder, while I’m on the fence

West Norwood, south London: These new kings of the urban jungle divide opinion, but I can’t help but enjoy their splash of colour in my winter garden

The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2024

Country diary: The mistle thrush has two voices and one obsession

Sandy, Bedfordshire: For more than 25 winters a thrush has appeared here, guarding precious mistletoe berries with a rattling call

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2024

Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley

Allendale, Northumberland: I had thought they were gone for good, but in this peak year for vole numbers, they have rebounded

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

Country diary: Farewell, dear Kite, my companion among these hills

North Wessex Downs: As I watch a short-eared owl, gliding in the golden hour, something is missing by my side

The Guardian - UK · Jan 3, 2024

Country diary: Every fruit-bearing tree needs a friend

Hassop Station, Derbyshire: This winter’s irruption of waxwings is showing just how intimate the relationship is between them and trees such as elder and hawthorn

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

Country diary: Gales tear sand from the foreshore

Aberdyfi, Gwynedd: Light streams across the beach, saturating the scene with colour and contrast, driving the grey murk inland

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2024

Country diary: The wind writes its own history in broken branches

The Marches, Shropshire: Gales like this have a violent beauty as they rip through trees, bending trunks and pulling at the roots

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2023

Country diary: A quiet battle for a long-lost field

Sandy, Bedfordshire: The meadow has been left unmanaged for years. Now, marsh and meadow species are competing for dominance

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2023

Country diary: A chasm so divine it may be enshrined in folklore

Lud’s Church, Buxton, Staffordshire: With its lush green and hushed interior, is this the lair of the Green Knight, as depicted in a medieval poem?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

Country diary: Frost covers anything that can support its feathery weight

Blacka Moor, South Yorkshire: Four hundred human generations have inhabited this corner of the English uplands; I bet every one has marvelled at these sights

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023

Country diary: A marooned fulmar chick that’s not as helpless as it looks

Aughris Head, County Sligo, Ireland: Surrounded by ocean, with its parents absent, no wonder it looked grumpy

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2023

Country diary: The glittering perfection of swallows in predatory mode

Buxton, Derbyshire: These ones were mostly young birds, twisting mid-flight to somehow pincer a fly in their tweezer beaks

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2023

Country diary: Spiders are preparing for their autumn invasion

Langstone, Hampshire: Giant house spiders are elite athletes with the ability to sprint half a metre in under a second

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023

Country diary: An eruption from the river, like a fountain of sparks

Broughton, North Yorkshire: Whatever flies they were, this was the most beautiful and most holy expression of spring I’ve witnessed this year

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2023

Country diary: The glittering star of many a lawn

Lightwood, Derbyshire: Mosses are a wonderfully rich and underappreciated subject – often living right under our noses

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2023

Country diary: Life on the farm is pregnantly poised

Long Dean, Cotswolds: The sows are weeks from farrowing, last year’s calves have been weaned ahead of the new births – and we’re anxiously waiting for rain

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023

Country diary: Corkscrew hazel has a story to tell that’s as convoluted as its limbs

Crook, County Durham: The tree currently wafting out clouds of golden pollen is also called Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick. But why?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2023

Country diary: Snowdrops in abundance, but the dry winter has taken its toll

St Dominic, Tamar Valley, Cornwall: A mixed picture here, with low streams and dried-up moss – but also my favourite gardening job of early spring

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