CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

I've finally taken the bird feeders down in the garden, because there's plenty of natural food available now that spring has arrived...

  Some more pictures of the dung beetle described in today's Guardian Country Diary ' Deerness Valley, County Durham Waiting for the...

  We encountered this female goosander and her nine ducklings, not long out of the nest, when we were crossing the footbridge over the river...

Dragonflies are the subject of my Guardian Country Diary today. This is the peak period locally to watch these spectacular gold-ringed d...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about grasshoppers. These lovely insects, that provide a soperific soundtrack to late summer, are ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is all about intoxicated butterflies. We had our best ever plum crop this year - too many to eat, ...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about autumn gentians and heather bees in a Weardale quarry. Weardale is a valley full of old mine...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about dung flies Scathophaga stercoraria These common insects carry out their c...