CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

The snow has almost gone, hereabouts. One of the delights of a fresh snowfall is the sudden appearance of animal tracks, that reveal just ...

In early June the meadows in the middle part of the dale, around Middleton-in-Teesdale, are full of buttercups , while... ... the ...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a walk along Thornhope Beck, a tributary of Waskerley Beck that flows into the river Wear...

We came across this sunbathing blackbird yesterday at Smardale Gill NNR in Cumbria, where it was in a trance-like state with wings and tail ...

On Christmas morning, while our dinner was cooking in the oven, we walked out over the local farmland and spotted this stoat, about 100 metr...