CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  One of a family of brown rats Rattus norvegicus living under a hen house at Home Farm in Beamish museum, entertaining visitors with their...

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

I usually only have fleeting glimpses of bank voles, but thanks to a fellow walker along the Deerness Valley Way in County Durham I had a go...

Most of my encounters with roe deer have been brief - often just a bobbing white tail disappearing through the trees. But this one, near Ro...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes encounters with two very interesting animals during a stroll on Roker Pier at Sunderland . Her...

Unlike the animal in Robert Burns' famous poem To a Mouse , this character is a wee, cunning, devio...

I found this picture of the fox that used to sunbath on my father-in-law's garage roof when I was searching back through some old pi...

I found these photographs of a pygmy shrew Sorex minutus when I was sorting through some pictures that I took back in the autumn of 2006. ...

I photographed this grey squirrel on Wimbledon Common on Sunday, where it was scavenging picnic leftovers and delighting young children with...